RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Schinkel
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Barrett Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:38 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:28 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dr. Ernie Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Schinkel
PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes cardinal sin Is this a pragmatic group that I'm working with, or a bunch of religious zealots that I've managed to get entangle

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Schinkel
a microformat if it did not go through the documented microformat process Agreed. -Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr. Ernie Prabhakar Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:38 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Schinkel
] On Behalf Of Scott Reynen Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:46 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? On Oct 26, 2006, at 3:07 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote: I'm still not convinced. I've only heard generalities and no specifics on anything

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Mike Schinkel
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr. Ernie Prabhakar Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:44 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? Hi Mike, Your always welcome to use HTML class name semantics or other

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Mike Schinkel
To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? On Oct 25, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: Thanks Charles. However I still have no idea why these things apply to specifying which page among of group of equivalent pages is authoritative and why

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Ciaran McNulty
On 10/26/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. That maybe solves this use case. Can you do the same using link in the head in case you don't want the hyperlink visible? Or what about on a div within body? And do you know if the search engines pay any attention to this?

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ciaran McNulty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes @rel=bookmark I've seen several people refer to such things with an opening @ - what does it mean? -- Andy Mabbett Say NO! to compulsory ID Cards: http://www.no2id.net/ Free Our Data:

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dr. Ernie Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes As long as you don't call it a microformat, feel free to experiment. :-) Why shouldn't he call it a microformat? -- Andy Mabbett Say NO! to compulsory ID Cards: http://www.no2id.net/

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Colin Barrett
On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ciaran McNulty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes @rel=bookmark I've seen several people refer to such things with an opening @ - what does it mean? I'm not sure on the etymology, but they're referring to attributes

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Colin Barrett
On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:28 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dr. Ernie Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes As long as you don't call it a microformat, feel free to experiment. :-) Why shouldn't he call it a microformat? Because it hasn't gone through the (fairly

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 26, 2006, at 3:07 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote: I'm still not convinced. I've only heard generalities and no specifics on anything I've heard regarding my use-case. RDF is far to complicated for the average person creating HTML; one reason why I don't think it will ever fly. I still

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Ben Ward
On 26 Oct 2006, at 18:35, Colin Barrett wrote: On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ciaran McNulty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes @rel=bookmark I've seen several people refer to such things with an opening @ - what does it mean? I'm not sure on the

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Colin Barrett
On Oct 26, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Ben Ward wrote: On 26 Oct 2006, at 18:35, Colin Barrett wrote: On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ciaran McNulty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes @rel=bookmark I've seen several people refer to such things with an opening @

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Ben Ward
On 27 Oct 2006, at 00:58, Colin Barrett wrote: @ represents an attribute, so @rel=tag means @rel tag with the value ‘tag’. The most advanced I've seen it get in general discussion is of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED], which means ‘element named foo with an attribute bar with value ‘sheep’.

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-25 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? On Oct 24, 2006, at 3:41 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote: Is there a clear and definitive objective statement that explains the class of problems that microformats are intended to solve? I've not sure the context of this question, but I think

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-25 Thread Mike Schinkel
, 2006 5:58 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? Hello Mike, XML, Semantic HTML, and RDF are closely related to what is being done here. But there's alot of other technologies for specific areas. Like with multimedia type thigns we have

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-25 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? Hello Mike, XML, Semantic HTML, and RDF are closely related to what is being done here. But there's alot of other technologies for specific areas. Like with multimedia type thigns we have SMIL, XSPF, etc etc. For databases like things we have

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 25, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: Thanks Charles. However I still have no idea why these things apply to specifying which page among of group of equivalent pages is authoritative and why Microformats do not. The latter seem a perfect fit to me, and what you listed either

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-24 Thread Mike Schinkel
Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? So, what if your take on this problem and use-case? Search engines make use of shingles to identify pages and their aliases. Some search engines employ teams of editors and solicit feedback from the web community to ensure

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-24 Thread Mike Schinkel
] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? On 10/23/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd suggest could be solved using an appropriate new [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then convicing the search engines to pay attention to it ;-) Do you mean in head? Did you see my earlier comments about

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-24 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 24, 2006, at 3:41 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote: Is there a clear and definitive objective statement that explains the class of problems that microformats are intended to solve? I've not sure the context of this question, but I think the closest we have is from the about page [1]:

[uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Schinkel
Brian Suda recently said: the problem with using Meta elements is that they are out-side of human-readable realm. One of the key factors in microformats is to keep the data visible, it keeps it fresh, prevents many of the abuses that have befallen meta-keywords, and also allows for

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 10/22/06 11:10 PM, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Suda recently said: the problem with using Meta elements is that they are out-side of human-readable realm. One of the key factors in microformats is to keep the data visible, it keeps it fresh, prevents many of the

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Schinkel
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tantek Ç elik Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 2:16 AM To: microformats-discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? On 10/22/06 11:10 PM, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Suda recently said

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 10/23/06 12:11 AM, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is not worth or appropriate to make the information visible, then it is not worth trusting the information and certainly not worth the time to make a microformat for it. But what if the website publisher (or graphic

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Rarely is metadata actually metadata. It is most often simply properties of the information which are still relevant to the user and thus should be visible. If it is not worth or appropriate to make the information visible,

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes But what if the website publisher (or graphic designer) does not want that information to be visible on the page? Then it is not worth trusting the information nor worth the time making a microformat for it. Again,

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello Andy, On 10/23/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Rarely is metadata actually metadata. It is most often simply properties of the information which are still relevant to the user and thus should be visible. If

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Ciaran McNulty
On 10/23/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider a page of events, with variable start times; and an introductory paragraph which says all events last for two hours. You're saying that the microformat should not include a dtend with the end time, for each event, because that end time

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Schinkel
towards what will actually be used (because if it won't be used, it won't be beneficial.) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tantek Ç elik Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 3:25 AM To: microformats-discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Schinkel
create yet another initiative for hidden Microformat-like metadata? :-) -Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ciaran McNulty Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 4:26 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Michael MD
For the specific example you mention, the '2 hours' declaration could probably be used as the DURATION (probably with an ABBR) and then transcluded into each VEVENT using the include-pattern. do many parsers out there support include-pattern yet? ... whereas any older or very simple

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Ciaran McNulty
On 10/23/06, Michael MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the specific example you mention, the '2 hours' declaration could probably be used as the DURATION (probably with an ABBR) and then transcluded into each VEVENT using the include-pattern. do many parsers out there support include-pattern

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Ciaran McNulty
On 10/23/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd suggest could be solved using an appropriate new [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then convicing the search engines to pay attention to it ;-) Do you mean in head? Did you see my earlier comments about wikis, CMS, and forums, where the user

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-23 Thread Benjamin West
So, what if your take on this problem and use-case? Search engines make use of shingles to identify pages and their aliases. Some search engines employ teams of editors and solicit feedback from the web community to ensure their aliasing techniques are correct. As far as I can tell, this