[uf-discuss] hCal in a table

2006-02-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
se clients don't understand hCal. Also, is the use of a non-breaking space in the dtend OK? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@mic

Re: [uf-discuss] all day events

2006-02-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
represent Christmas in iCal is 20061225T00". I disagree. That's the correct way to represent Christmas DAY; Christmas lasts for 12 days; and for some people starts on or around 7 January. Pedantically, -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!&q

Re: [uf-discuss] all day events

2006-02-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
ent >on the blog? The Blog said you wanted comments here! Feel free to cite what I wrote previously. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-d

Re: [uf-discuss] hCal in a table

2006-02-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/birmingham/indoor.htm [2] simplified page at http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/birmingham/indoorHCAL.htm -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss

Re: wiki-thon? Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats.org usability review

2006-02-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
machines. They do this by describing them in a simple and versatile, yet strictly defined, way. Learn more about microformats. Of course, there may be more suitable examples. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to

Re: [uf-discuss] hCal in a table

2006-02-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I have come up with this (valid) mark-up [2]: >but cannot see how to include hCalendars's "location" or "URL". In this >case, the URL should be that of the page on which the eve

Re: [uf-discuss] Signalling use of microformats?

2006-02-09 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Osolkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> > >Ironically, this is exactly the sort of thing microformats are against >using- But it's not a microformat; it's metadata. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!"

Re: wiki-thon? Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats.org usability review

2006-02-09 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tantek Çelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On 2/8/06 3:44 PM, "Andy Mabbett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Carl Beeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>> One of the p

Re: [uf-discuss] hresume draft

2006-02-13 Thread Andy Mabbett
I would avoid class="title", anyway, as there's already a title attribute. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss

Re: [uf-discuss] Plants Microformat

2006-03-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mark gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I am developing a microformat proposal for plants. What do you mean by "plants"? Garden plants? Plants as studied by botanists? Plant-material, such as cut flowers, or planks of timber? -- Andy Ma

Re: [uf-discuss] Plants Microformat

2006-03-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Suda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >title="homosapien" ITYM "Homo sapiens" (two words, capital "H", closing "s") -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards

[uf-discuss] OpenURL COinS

2006-03-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
Is "OpenURL COinS" <http://ocoins.info/> a microformat? How widely used is it? are there any alternative/ competing formats? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data:

Re: [uf-discuss] Plants Microformat

2006-03-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
ervation/ substance details from a preferred source. > It still has the same latin name No, it has a scientific name. >Do we need to clarify that we're not talking about plastic plants or >photos of plants also? Is that really the level of debate, here? -- Andy Mabbett

Re: [uf-discuss] Describing software

2006-03-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Drew McLellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >So based on a discussion elsewhere, I was looking to see if there's an >existing proposal for some kind of software microformat. You might want to see: http://www.asp-shareware.org

[uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up

2006-04-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
Is it acceptable to use 'OpenURL COinS' in this way: 0 9507881-2-0 Thoughts? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> __

Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up

2006-04-22 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >ISBN is a registered URN, so I'd rather see coding that supported that; >e.g. urn:isbn:0950788120. How would you see that sitting inside HTML mark-up? -- Andy Mabbett Say

Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up

2006-04-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alf Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> How would you see that sitting inside HTML mark-up? > >0 9507881-2-0 Thank you. I'm very concerned that that may be an abuse of "abbr"; and wonder how it will sound when read to some

Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up

2006-04-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
ion[1] about the title attribute. > >[1] http://www.sf.id.au/WE05/indexa.html#slide5 What, on the page you cite, do you think negates that concern? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/&

Re: "uid" microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
he same cannot be said about ISBN. Interesting assertion. Care to cite your evidence? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> __

Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up

2006-04-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
user is aware of the presence of TITLE texts and specifies the option >to read TITLE texts, which for many, means that they will not hear the >link text" Indeed. I wonder how it will sound when read to someone using assistive software? -- Andy Mabbett

Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up

2006-04-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
n dirait celle de notre temps. >Arcane 17 - André >Breton > Which doesn't meet my original request: I feel that there should be some way (or is there already?) for marking up an ISBN number, so that it is recognisable as such. -- Andy Mabbett Say "

Re: "uid" microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
street what an ISBN is and how to use it. No evidence, then. Free clue: I know far more people who use ISBNs than zip codes (indeed, more who know what an ISBN is, than do a zip code). -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no

[uf-discuss] hCard implementation check please; plus use of common attribute

2006-06-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
I should be grateful for people's comments about the way I've added hCard markup to : http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/club/executive.htm and especially how I might add the "organisation" component which is the same for every person listed. Thank

[uf-discuss] hCalendar for events in tables (real world examples)

2006-06-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
ts as to how to do so while again retaining the format (but being willing to include additional data) In each case, the pages are manually generated (for now), but it is my intention to migrate them to a database, and use PHP to display them. -

Re: [uf-discuss] hCard implementation check please; plus use of common attribute

2006-06-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
~#~# Also, I marked up the text concerned as: West Midland Bird Club but it seems to me that: West Midland Bird Club should work. Thoughts? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free

Re: [uf-discuss] hCalendar for events in tables (real world examples)

2006-06-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
t;brainstorming" page [1], it's presumably not yet an accepted standard? [1] I'm told that in some circles, the use of "brainstorming" in this context is considered insensitive, even offensive, as it is also used in the context of epilepsy or some related conditions

Re: [uf-discuss] hCard implementation check please; plus use of common attribute

2006-06-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
ot;vcard" >West >Midland Bird >Club Thanks. I've done that. Either FireFox's "Tails Export" extension doesn't yet now about the include trick, or it's not working on: http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/club/executiveVCARD.htm --

Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up

2006-06-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Perhaps not a microformat, in the sense used here, but I feel that >there should be some way (or is there already?) for marking up an ISBN >number, so that it is recognisable as such. Was this ever re

Re: [uf-discuss] hCalendar for events in tables (real world examples)

2006-06-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
thors. You asked me to let you know if they "lack clarity in any way"; not whether they were clear to you. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourda

Re: [uf-discuss] hCard implementation check please; plus use of common attribute

2006-06-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
om/club/executive.htm > >Right, you should certainly apply the above styling to all browsers, >as they each have their own difficulties with object elements. And what about agents with no CSS capability? The method smacks of being a kludge. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to co

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
n parlance: 1 Might be interpreted as: 1/- (worth £4.50 [1] in modern terms) There would be further complications where the entire currency has disappeared, (such as French Francs into Euros) rather than just the fractions of the main unit (as old English shillings/ pennies

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
r is better, because the number is included in the markup, not merely the symbol. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> __

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Ganz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I got the page kicked off by capturing a few examples in the wild and >some of the brainstorming that took place here on the list. Oddly, you seem to have overlooked my comments. -- Andy Mabbett

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
e we just strayed from marking up currency to >marking up exchange rates. Working out values in secondary currencies is a (real-time or daily) job for server-side scripting or user agents, surely? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.n

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Consider a defunct currency Example: http://charlesdickenspage.com/works.html a novel cost 31 shillings in 1836, average worker earned 6 to 20 shillings per week) but a monthly instal

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
racted and or used by an >outside process? As I've already pointed out; amounts could be styled with currency symbols in the same way that "Q" tags are styled with quote marks (or in the above example, suppressed by using, say, class="nosymbol"); and the date attribute would

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Something like: > >6 to >20 >shillings Ack! That should be: 6 to 20 shillings -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compul

Re: [uf-discuss] Google Disses TBL and the Semantic Web

2006-07-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Messina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quoted >We deal with millions of Web masters who can't configure a server, >can't write HTML. >Some commercial providers say, 'I'm the >leader. Why should I standardize?' All Goog

Re: [uf-discuss] creators updated

2006-07-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
ot;, preceded by a space. You should prompt for a "title" attribute for the link. The date format "July 19 20, 2006" is US-centric; offer a "19-20 July 2006" variant (with an "–", but no comma) and consider others. Allow times to be presented

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
t 58,500 for "worth" "in modern terms". about 381,000,000 for "worth" "today" including <http://eh.net/hmit/> and <http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html> about 15,800,000 for Fre

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
by paragraph including: "$50 or $50" any more than, say: "IBM or IBM" (though neither is human-friendly). Where the 'nationality' of the currency needs to be shown to a human, '$US 50' is: $US 50 but what about &#x

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
dollars five >25cm I'd certainly like to be able to mark up, say: 2" and: 2" in such a way as to show that 2" and 2" are not necessarily the same. Once again, context will usually make the usage clear, for humans. (using water HTML entity i

Re: [uf-discuss] creators updated

2006-07-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
l allowed. "2<5" would seem, to me, to be a common usage. As would "b&w television". As would <http://www.example.com>. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Fre

[uf-discuss] hCal in table - I think I might have cracked it?

2006-08-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
One (or more, by the time you read this) of the events on this page is marked up as an hCal. How does it look? http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/indexEXPAND.htm -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/>

[uf-discuss] Events with no duration; and end of daylight saving time

2006-08-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
What's the correct way to mark up an hCal for an event which has no duration? And what's the correct way in which to mark up the event when, at the end of daylight saving time, clocks go back from 3am to 2am - as a single event at 3am? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!&qu

[uf-discuss] hCard and e-mail addresses: no guidance

2006-08-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
Surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be anything on the 'hCard authoring' page <http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-authoring>, about marking up an e-mail address. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/>

Re: [uf-discuss] Events with no duration; and end of daylight saving time

2006-08-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Suda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On 8/26/06, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> What's the correct way to mark up an hCal for an event which has no >> duration? > >The only two properties that are

Re: [uf-discuss] Events with no duration; and end of daylight saving time

2006-08-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
w them to easily enter a reminder to do so into their calendar app. Most apps that I've used, don't generate a reminder for the end of an event. >> I think I need to add some timezone info to the start and end times on >> that page - how? Done, now - is my mark-up correc

Re: [uf-discuss] hCal in table - I think I might have cracked it?

2006-08-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >One (or more, by the time you read this) of the events on this page is >marked up as an hCal. They all are, now. > How does it look? > >http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/indexE

Re: [uf-discuss] hCal in table - I think I might have cracked it?

2006-08-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Janes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Like this [of "Almost Universal Microformat Parser": <http://tools.blogmatrix.com/extract/> ] Fantastically useful site. Thank you. -- Andy Mabbett Say "

Re: [uf-discuss] hCal in table - I think I might have cracked it?

2006-08-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >the hcard name(s) within vevent 20 fixed, thank you. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data:

[uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in "A. B. Smith" format

2006-08-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
I need to mark up a vcard for someone whose name is given as "A. B. Smith". I can't seem to find such an example on the wiki. How should I do so? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/>

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in "A. B. Smith" format

2006-08-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
is case, I have no idea what the "A" & "B" stand for. >I hope this helps It has given me food for thought, thanks. I suppose I could use: A. B. Smith -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards:

[uf-discuss] How's my hReview?

2006-08-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
Here's my first stab at marking up one of my reviews with hReview: http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/reviews/WarksBirding2005.htm how does it look? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/>

Re: [uf-discuss] How's my hReview?

2006-08-30 Thread Andy Mabbett
debatable. Have a look at a decent newspaper's book or theatre reviews. >finnaly, the reviewer hCard is also incorrect: >Andy Mabbett >March 2006 > >you need to nest the class="fn" inside the class="vcard" >Andy Mabbett >March 2006 Yuk. How is the la

Re: [uf-discuss] "geo" microformat - specification and usage

2006-08-30 Thread Andy Mabbett
geo.position" style meta tags. AIUI, they're concerned about spammers - a page can only be marked up with one point using ICBM or geo.position, but you could, in theory, have a point for each town in the UK on one page, with the microformat. -- Andy Mabbett Say "

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in "A. B. Smith" format

2006-08-30 Thread Andy Mabbett
suffixes. Here's a good test case: http://www.sfc-plk.edu.hk/estaff.htm -- Andy Mabbett, BA, M.Phil., M.Sc., D.Phil., I.M.D. (I.M.D. = "In My Dreams") ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in "A. B. Smith" format

2006-08-31 Thread Andy Mabbett
George Mountbatten-Windsor The sooner we're a republic... -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> ___ mi

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in "A. B. Smith" format

2006-09-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
Arthur > George > Windsor > > Assuming you have some spaces in your markup, that would display as: His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor So far as I'm aware, that form is never used

Re: [uf-discuss] How's my hReview?

2006-09-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
data >is being extracted from the title. > >March 2006 Done, thanks. I'm still not happy with using abbr in this way! -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeour

Re: [uf-discuss] Citation: experiences parsing DC metadata

2006-09-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >See this post for >details and a movie, once it uploads: >http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/?p=63 Because you've chosen to use a small font and pale grey text, I find that page almost unr

[uf-discuss] format for "geo"

2006-09-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
uot; against which this can be tested? (FYI, "SJ870099" is a British Ordnance Survey "Landranger" grid reference, directly equivalent to the lat. & long. co-ordinates given) -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.ne

Re: [uf-discuss] format for "geo"

2006-09-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >SJ870099 >Are there any other tools which recognise "geo" against which this can >be tested? <http://suda.co.uk/projects/microformats/geo/> seems to manage OK -- Andy

[uf-discuss] Microformats on PDAs/ AvantGo

2006-09-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
be an uphill struggle, since I've been asking them for over a year to respect null "alt" text for an image, when that image is not loaded) -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our D

Re: [uf-discuss] Introducing Happy Pals

2006-09-09 Thread Andy Mabbett
olleague, etc. >http://chancecube.com/archives/2006/09/08/introducing-happy-pals/ That looks like a clear case of ignoring the WCAG advice not to use colour alone to convey information. Also, how will it render on an aural browser/ text reader? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!&qu

[uf-discuss] URL confusion with hCard inside hCal & Tails-Export

2006-09-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
he venue URL as the URL for the exported event, rather than the URL for the event itself, Is my markup at fault, or is it the extension which is wrong? If the former, how should I fix it? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/>

Re: [uf-discuss] URL confusion with hCard inside hCal & Tails-Export

2006-09-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
the extension which is wrong? >I had a look, and i am pretty sure the extension is in error. Thank you; I've notified the author. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.fr

[uf-discuss] Proposal: Lunar/ Mars co-ordinates (like "geo")

2006-09-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
ographic Coordinates And Rotational Elements Of The Planets And Satellites: 2000": <http://www.gfy.ku.dk/~iag/Travaux_01/Out%20of%20Section/IAU-IAG.htm> "Mars Global Surveyor Science Sampler Data Set Collection, Coordinate Systems": <http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/sci/CDsampler/

[uf-discuss] "geo" not mentioned on Wikipedia "Geotagging" page

2006-09-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
Somebody familiar with the "geo" microformat might want to add details, and a link to the relevant page on the microformat Wiki, to the Wikipedia page on Geotagging <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging> (I am not in a position to do so). -- Andy Mabbett

[uf-discuss] Proposal: species

2006-09-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
#~#~#~# References: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_classification> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature> International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature <http://www.iczn.org/> International Code of Botani

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: species

2006-09-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
find matching pairs of pages with and without the scientific names of a commonly-named species. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> _

Re: [uf-discuss] "geo" not mentioned on Wikipedia "Geotagging" page

2006-09-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging> >> (I am not in a position to do so). > >Thanks for pointing this out Andy - could you add your request to the >to-do page on our wiki so that hopefully someone will pick it up? Done. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compu

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: Lunar/ Mars co-ordinates (like "geo")

2006-09-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I propose "luna" and "mars" microformats See: <http://microformats.org/wiki/luna-examples> and <http://microformats.org/wiki/mars-examples> -- Andy Mab

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: species

2006-09-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >There should, I believe, be a microformat for the markup of plant and >animal names, to include their scientific names. I'm tending towards this model: sci (scientific name)

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: species

2006-09-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
roformat, in the same way that an hCal can contain an hCard. In any case, I've flagged up my proposal on the page you cited. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/>

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: species

2006-09-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >plant microformat >In any case, I've flagged up my proposal on the page you cited. Or, rather, on : http://microformats.org/wiki/plant-examples#See_Also -- Andy Mabbett Say

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: Lunar/ Mars co-ordinates (like "geo")

2006-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
t the wikipedia >external links it seems the data for the moon landing example all seem >to blow up because they're trying to plot you on the earth instead.. >(e.g. yahoo puts you in the middle of the pacific ocean). Which external links? -- Andy Mabbett Say "

[uf-discuss] No hCal on wiki events page

2006-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
I was surprised to find that there is no hcalenar mark-up on: <http://microformats.org/wiki/events> ! -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: Lunar/ Mars co-ordinates (like "geo")

2006-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
, indenting and returns aside, has an extra: 12345678901234567890123456 25 (=26-1) characters over: 37.386013, -122.082932 It is also non-sensical, since, as I said previously, "geo" refers to "(planet) Earth".

[uf-discuss] Parsing dates in preferred format

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
done now, with a FireFox extension or GreaseMonkey script? (The former would be preferable from my PoV) -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data:

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: species

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >There should, I believe, be a microformat for the markup of plant and >animal names, to include their scientific names. Work to date at: <http://microformats.org/wiki/species-brainstormi

[uf-discuss] Draft, plain-English intro to hCalendar.

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
udge for the end date; suggestions of a better way to mark it up for the given example would be helpful. Once it's finished and agreed, I plan to make similar pages for other microformats, and microformats in general. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory I

Re: [uf-discuss] Draft, plain-English intro to hCalendar.

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
events to your diary, in one go? Well, that's what hCalendar >does." > >It's that final word - hCalendar _doesn't_ do those things, but it >_allows_ it, among other things, such as aggregation on other sites. Agreed, thank you. I've changed that last word to &qu

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: Lunar/ Mars co-ordinates (like "geo")

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
planets are also under >revision Thank you. I've put our thoughts, to date, on: <http://microformats.org/wiki/luna-brainstorming> -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: &

Re: [uf-discuss] Parsing dates in preferred format

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
>Go for it! :) Er, that was me "going for it". -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> ___ microformats-di

Re: [uf-discuss] An attempt at a lint tool for XFN, rel-tag etc

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Drew McLellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >If you'd like to see it in action, try running it on [...] I did, and in the results pop-up, the pale grey text on a pale buff background is very hard to read; please increase the contra

[uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
//microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming#Straw_man_proposal > Please feel free to critique it, and, in particular, highlight any examples for which it does not cater. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free

Re: [uf-discuss] Financial data, statements etc - any previous discussion?

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
torming#Straw_man_proposal > to the Wiki. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> ___ microformats-di

[uf-discuss] Avoiding duplicate data on one page; and same-page URL references.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
I have in mind some kind of "meta-summary" and "meta-URL" tags. Thoughts? Suggestions? The same dilemma applies to the "organisation for all the contacts on, say: http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/club/executive.htm -- Andy Mabbett

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
>More generally, if the currency isn't published anywhere, doesn't that >make it out of scope for microformats? The example, which you've only partially quoted, is a table row; elsewhere in that Wiki entry, I've talked of such rows having header cells; again, the wider

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Paul Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >looks very good - nice and simple and functional :) Thank you. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/>

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
... >Something that renders as... > > $5.00 > >Would have the markup... > > $5.00 Interesting, but is "iso42172 better than "currency"? Andy why is the currency symbol ("¤") needed there? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!"

[uf-discuss] Avoiding duplicate data on one page; and same-page URL references.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
events have the summary "WMBC Birmingham Branch field trip" and use the URL of that page - all data which is available to visitors to the latter page, albeit not once for each event. >If you expect to make this visible, then you can hange an ID on it, >and use

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
or proposals. > >Otherwise the discussions of brainstorming will tend to reflect bias >and matters of taste rather than actual market/development >requirements. I find your tone objectionable; and your claims fallacious. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" t

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
217 is needed within the code though; >it could be accepted as the default way of doing it, in the same way >ISO8601 is used for dates, and whatever co-ordinate system is used in >geo, etc. Seconded. It only needs to be specified if there's more than one standard in use. [...] --

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > >>> >>> 42.67 >>> >>> >>> Isn't this suggesting that "42.67" is an abbreviation for &q

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I may be a similar discussion; sorry. "I may be mis-remembering..." -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free

Re: [uf-discuss] Parsing dates in preferred format

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
gine a CSS rule and perhaps a CSS property or two that would automatically transform and present [...] ISO8601 dates from 'title' attributes of elements into whatever datetime format the user preferred rather than my mark-up, at fault? -- Andy Mabbett

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
eone might pick up on those examples :o) I suppose >you could have your "unit" class here: > > > >£14 >6s >4d > > > >^^^ There's all sorts of problems with that example, Not least that "shilling" may not be a British shilling and tha

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tantek Çelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On 9/20/06 3:51 PM, "Andy Mabbett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I see that you documented some examples on the "currency" page on the >>> wiki. >>

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