[uf-discuss] New Member on the List

2006-10-12 Thread Mike Schinkel
to see this initiative! Over the coming month I hope to contribute significantly, and I have some thoughts on some microformats I'd really like to see. However, I'm going to sit back and get a feel for the group and how things operate before I propose anything so as not to waste anybody's time. -Mike

RE: [uf-discuss] Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results

2006-10-12 Thread Mike Schinkel
I want to vote on the poll but can you clarify what certain options mean exactly, maybe by hypothetical examples (quoted parts are what confuse me)? * Currency symbol identification from other part of the text * Global currency definition * Amount identification from other part of the text

RE: [uf-discuss] new standard for product information

2006-10-12 Thread Mike Schinkel
So, they typically resort to integration mechanism or other concepts (retailer-manager store-in-store) they can control and authorize for select e-retailers they work closely with. Which is why I think the ideas I have will be a lot like RSS; they are small, simple, and will really help

RE: [uf-discuss] new standard for product information

2006-10-12 Thread Mike Schinkel
Wow. At 1.5MB of documentation, that's pretty much the antithesis of a microformat. Holy $h1t! Maybe we should call that one a Macroformat? Hehe. ;) -Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Reynen Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006

RE: [uf-discuss] Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results

2006-10-13 Thread Mike Schinkel
: Preliminary results Mike Schinkel wrote: This is a naïve question: Doesn't the ISO 4217 code *imply* a symbol? It appears so here: http://www.xe.com/symbols.htm Doesn't including this in the microformat create redundancy? Alternately, can't the symbols be extracted as not being alphanumeric

RE: [uf-discuss] Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Schinkel
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lachlan Hunt Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 4:19 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results Mike Schinkel wrote: Thanks for the clarification. Further questions (and forgive me

RE: title attribute and abbreviated class names (Was: [uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results)

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Schinkel
To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: title attribute and abbreviated class names (Was: [uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results) On Oct 12, 2006, at 10:34 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: Anyway, I made a proposal here: http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming#Mike_Schinkel

[uf-discuss] Casual Web Services and Well Designed Urls

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Schinkel
-based web services. If I am correct about this, it is important that we sooner than later start promoting Well Designed Urls as well as crystalizing a set of best practices for URL structure design. At least that my opinion and I am hoping you each concur. Thoughts? Questions? -Mike Schinkel http

RE: [uf-discuss] Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Schinkel
. If I misunderstood, sorry for my missing the point. -Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lachlan Hunt Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 6:41 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results Mike

RE: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Schinkel
The book costs $span class=USD5.99/span This gives me a chance to ask in a different way, why can we not assume type=USD, amount=5.99, and symbol=$ from the following? The book costs span class=currency title=USD$5.99/span I believe you answer will be what about unicode where we are

RE: title attribute and abbreviated class names (Was:[uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results)

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Schinkel
and abbreviated class names (Was:[uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results) On Oct 14, 2006, at 3:42 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote: I think your use of the title attribute in these examples contains two bad practices Hmm. I see your point, and being new to this I'm learning from your examples

RE: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Schinkel
Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes This gives me a chance to ask in a different way, why can we not assume type=USD, amount=5.99, and symbol=$ from the following? The book costs span class=currency

RE: [uf-discuss] Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Schinkel
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Mabbett Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 4:22 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes £1 was worth 2.50 dollars Those are edge

RE: [uf-discuss] ANN: The Purpose of Microformats

2006-10-16 Thread Mike Schinkel
number of my suggestions you'll certainly need to rework some of it as I didn't flesh it out exhaustively, and in two case I left to be written with notes. JMTCW. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blog http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ = * Title Slide

RE: [uf-discuss] currency quickpoll results and suggested next step

2006-10-16 Thread Mike Schinkel
My opinion is this sounds like a great idea! Will you be doing the edit on the current proposal? I am surprised however at the number of people who felt Currency unit/denomination used identification was important and it seems like an edge case to me. I'm hoping that this become an optional

RE: [uf-discuss] currency quickpoll results and suggested next step

2006-10-16 Thread Mike Schinkel
-discuss] currency quickpoll results and suggested next step Mike Schinkel wrote I am surprised however at the number of people who felt Currency unit/denomination used identification was important and it seems like an edge case to me. I'm hoping that this become an optional aspect as opposed

RE: [uf-discuss] Wiki Editing and Process + Tone of Voice

2006-10-16 Thread Mike Schinkel
Christopher: I concur and wanted to email something similar, but I didn't want to be the messenger that was shot. Thanks for interjecting! -Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Rines Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 6:51 PM

RE: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included!

2006-10-16 Thread Mike Schinkel
I agree that the current layout is confusing. After reading several of these email I would like to make a suggestion that is smaller scope than an entire reorganization (which still might be a good idea.) Tantek suggests that the specifications are not tutorials and others have said that they

RE: [uf-discuss] hCard-o-matic toplevel div not address?

2006-10-16 Thread Mike Schinkel
The address tag ... is designed to markup information related to the author of a particular page Too bad sites like the following don't make that more clear (reading it I never would have come to the conclusion that it was for the author of the current page):

RE: [uf-discuss] ANN: The Purpose of Microformats

2006-10-16 Thread Mike Schinkel
misconception was cleared after which I became a convert. I would guess a lot of people might have a similar misconception. -Mike -Original Message- From: Mike Schinkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:45 PM To: 'Microformats Discuss' Subject: RE: [uf-discuss] ANN

RE: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included!

2006-10-17 Thread Mike Schinkel
really like it. Remember to check back and make sure progress is happening. Feel free to give me a nudge if I'm unresponsive. Ben On 10/16/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you mind confiming this on the to-do page under my name [1]? I added, see if it is what you were

[uf-discuss] Lightweight Data Access Services and Well Designed Urls

2006-10-17 Thread Mike Schinkel
based on my clarification. Also, would there be sufficient interest for me to start a list now, and invite anyone interested to come on over? I'll need 5-10 interested parties otherwise it won't be time yet. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blog http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ P.S

RE: Know your stuff: (Was: [uf-discuss] hCard-o-matic toplevel div notaddress?)

2006-10-17 Thread Mike Schinkel
I think the reorganization to create mini-home pages for each microformat will make it easy to find and remember those, i.e http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard/faq -Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frances Berriman Sent:

RE: [uf-discuss] Lightweight Data Access Services and Well DesignedUrls

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
this elsewhere. Repeating what I said above, can you give me any pointers for sending my first post to that list? In closing, even though I disagreed with you on some topics I respect you for your position in the W3C and I greatly appreciate the time you've given me thus far. -Mike Schinkel http

RE: title attribute and abbreviated classnames(Was:[uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results)

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
most people, even most tech geeks, don't understand regular expressions at all. Peace, Scott On Oct 15, 2006, at 4:40 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: Scott: Thanks for the reply. If probably got confusing on my part; I will try to resolve that here if possible. I thought what you suggested

RE: RE: [uf-discuss] Casual Web Services and Well Designed Urls

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: RE: [uf-discuss] Casual Web Services and Well Designed Urls On 10/16/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the reason I bring them up here on Microformats discuss as I see clean URLs as being important for being able to easily screen scrape microformats

RE: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included!

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
Benjamin: As one data point, I learned about Microformats[1] at a conference[2]. When I came to the site I wanted to learn how to author them. In addition, I wanted to learn how to get involved in the process of specifying new ones (although I doubt only a small percentage will be interested in

RE: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included!

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
] On Behalf Of Benjamin West Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:06 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included! On 10/18/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A form would be nice, but it takes time to develop and we can't expect

RE: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included!

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included! In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I don't think anyone has said that. I certainly don't think people should be encouraged to begin authoring before first

RE: [uf-discuss] Size considerations

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
Has there been any thought to try and survey the web development community at large on these types of issues? I could see the value of having a lot of these types of questions answered if we were do present surveys (of course hopefully we could find a surveying expert to help us make sure we were

RE: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included!

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
Justin: Very good organization! JMTCW. -Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Thorp Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:57 PM To: microformats-discuss@microformats.org Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification

RE: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included!

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
] On Behalf Of Tantek Ç elik Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:13 PM To: microformats-discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included! On 10/18/06 4:04 PM, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point was simply to be careful not to overwhelm the user with text

RE: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included!

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
See my todo list. Suggestion: can you be sure to include the actual URL of any referenced item in any emails to make sure I can actually find it. :) Do you think you can do a refinement of your categories on the to-do list? Can you also enumerate the categories of content generally available

RE: [uf-discuss] Size considerations

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: The following is 6 characters: $54.97 This is 151 characters (according to MS-Word's stats dialog): span class=money span class=symbol title=dollar$/span

RE: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included!

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
://microformats.org/wiki/to-do#Information_Architecture. I did the hAtom creator and am interested in further work on the creators. http://microformats.org/wiki/to-do#Creators If there is a creator missing, I'll gladly come up with something. Ben On 10/18/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

RE: title attribute and abbreviatedclassnames(Was:[uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results)

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Paul Weber Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:55 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: title attribute and abbreviatedclassnames(Was:[uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results) On 10/18/06, Mike Schinkel

RE: [uf-discuss] Size considerations

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Schinkel
The point I am trying to make is this: file size *is* an issue, but it is not an insurmountable problem and can be solved through technology and good design; file size shouldn't compromise the semantics and design of a microformat. Since I was the one that originally called the question I want

RE: [uf-discuss] Size considerations

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Schinkel
Okay... Did I just make more work for myself? :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Roper Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:45 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations Mike Schinkel wrote: Has

RE: [uf-discuss] Size considerations (or how to choose abbreviations)

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Schinkel
The point I am trying to make is abbreviations can be very dangerous and are very easy to mis-interpret so I think we need to think long and hard before choosing and implementing them. I am not arguing against them in specific cases but very well thought out cases. I have a question about

[uf-discuss] Microformats vs. CalDAV?

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Schinkel
Microformats to someone who thinks CalDAV is the only thing they need to support. Can I get some help with this? -Mike Schinkel P.S. Also, I think a great addition to the FAQ would be to list of standard like vCard and CalDAV etc. and give arguments for why Microformats should be considering in parallel

RE: RE: title attribute and abbreviatedclassnames(Was:[uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results)

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Schinkel
. for formatting to make it very tight): address img src=http://www.mikeschinkel.com/images/MikeSchinkel_120x120.jpg; a target=_blank href=http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blog/;Mike Schinkel/a a target=_blank href=http://www.guidesinc.com;Guides, Inc

RE: [uf-discuss] Microformats vs. CalDAV?

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Schinkel
: Friday, October 20, 2006 12:00 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats vs. CalDAV? On Oct 19, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: The good news is Apple in on our board, which means CalDAV would be the standard we'd employ. CalDEV: http

[uf-discuss] IRC Chat Client?

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Schinkel
I tend to prefer the combination of IRC+wiki, Slightly off topic, but can anyone recommend a good free IRC client for WinXP? -Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tantek Ç elik Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:49 PM To:

RE: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included!

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Schinkel
: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:49 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included! In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'm coming to believe that there are some very different assumed goals use-cases among the people

RE: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Schinkel
span class=currency title=USD$1,000/span In the US that will mean one dollar, in Argentina (where I'm from) it will mean a thousand dollars. I believe you misunderstood what I was proposing; a shorthand for cases where it was unambiguous. When it was ambiguous it would require more. Unless I

[uf-discuss] Page-Global solution to Size Considersations (was Size considerations (or how to choose))

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Schinkel
. Just like acronyms can be an insiders language, abbreviations can obfuscate meaning. To reiterate my position I love abbreviations but anywhere they are used really need to be studied. :-) Cheers, Christopher In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] in addition to other

RE: [uf-discuss] IRC Chat Client?

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Schinkel
Thanks for the all input on chat programs! I'll check'em out and get on the IRC after I come back from this long weekend. -Mike ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org

RE: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Schinkel
] On Behalf Of Ciaran McNulty Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 4:34 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal On 10/20/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: How does a human currently interpret a website that is have values such as $1,000

RE: RE: title attribute and abbreviatedclassnames(Was:[uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results)

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Schinkel
we could introduce the implied optimisation that if there is no explicit 'amount' then the amount could be taken to be everything inside the 'money' that isn't the 'currency' That would simplify the markup in a large number of the cases, and I don't think would complicate the parsing

RE: [uf-discuss] IRC Chat Client?

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Schinkel
Sure then, next week. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tantek Ç elik Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 5:01 AM To: microformats-discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] IRC Chat Client? On 10/20/06 1:52 AM, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

RE: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Schinkel
McNulty Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 5:14 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal On 10/20/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: how would someone implement a wiki with different pages in different languages since they don't have

[uf-discuss] Advocacy Page on Wiki

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Schinkel
To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats vs. CalDAV? On Oct 19, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: The good news is Apple in on our board, which means CalDAV would be the standard we'd employ. CalDEV: http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/ Now, it's my

[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] Microformats vs. CalDAV?

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Schinkel
To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats vs. CalDAV? On Oct 19, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: P.S. Also, I think a great addition to the FAQ would be to list of standard like vCard and CalDAV etc. and give arguments for why Microformats should be considering

RE: [uf-discuss] Page-Global solution to Size Considersations (wasSize considerations (or how to choose))

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Schinkel
:38 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Page-Global solution to Size Considersations (wasSize considerations (or how to choose)) On 10/20/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the size per amount marked-up can be addressed by focusing on providing a page-global

RE: [uf-discuss] [admin] mailing list policies reminder

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Schinkel
archives to dig them out. I also don't want to have to decide which are policies and which are someone's singular opinions; the wiki process will weed out the latter. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blog http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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 Mike Schinkel
...a Microformat requirement? 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

RE: RE: RE: title attribute andabbreviatedclassnames(Was:[uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll:Preliminary results)

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Schinkel
Brian Suda wrote: --- there are elements in HTML which convay more semantic information. Gotcha, thanks. The next step is to explicitly label that abbr so parser know it is the TYPE. span class=currencyabbr class=type title=USD$/abbr5.99/span This gets back to what I was trying to get away

RE: [uf-discuss] [admin] mailing list policies reminder

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Schinkel
] mailing list policies reminder In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes can we please make sure that all policies make their way to http://microformats.org/mailinglists-policies/ I also don't want to have to decide which are policies and which are someone's singular

RE: [uf-discuss] Advocacy Page on Wiki

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Schinkel
Of Tantek Ç elik Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 5:52 PM To: microformats-discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Advocacy Page on Wiki On 10/20/06 2:58 PM, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created an Advocacy page on the Wiki. http://microformats.org/wiki/Advocacy If it's not the right place

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

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Schinkel
...a Microformat requirement? On 10/23/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what if your take on this problem and use-case? I'm not Tantek, but you're use-case seems eminently reasonable, and I'd suggest could be solved using an appropriate new [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then convicing the search engines

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

2006-10-24 Thread Mike Schinkel
Search engines make use of shingles to identify pages and their aliases. What's a shingle? As far as I can tell, this isn't in the same class of problems that microformats solve. Is there a clear and definitive objective statement that explains the class of problems that microformats are

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] Mailing list debate moved new proposal

2006-10-25 Thread Mike Schinkel
Andy Mabbett Why not create a new mailing list for each proposal, once it's reached a certain stage? I tend to really like this proposal. I've been thinking about if and how Microformats can evolve and grow. I can see Microformats being potentially much larger helping to create tags in many

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

2006-10-25 Thread Mike Schinkel
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 don't apply to general web pages, are years off and can't

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

2006-10-26 Thread Mike Schinkel
it. As long as you don't call it a microformat, feel free to experiment. :-) - Ernie P. On Oct 25, 2006, at 3:15 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 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] how do i submit something for consideration?

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Schinkel
Charles, Funny, I've been planning to write a blog post entitled something like What's the one thing wrong with Open-Source? Forking! :) -Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Iliya Krempeaux Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:45

RE: [uf-discuss] include-pattern support for data outside of the current page? [Was: Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?]

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Schinkel
Is it good for the interpretation of the data on one page to rely on data on another page? anyone has an opinion? My knee-jerk reaction is that it is very bad practice to have what would essentially be the legend to be on a separate page. Very, very bad. When I use to teach programming, one of

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

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Schinkel
Because it hasn't gone through the (fairly rigorous) demands of the uF process -- the process page on the wiki[1] outlines this. But what I'm hearing is that if it's not visible it cannot go through that process... -Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

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
that is *only* for machine consumption Conversely, if he's unsure whether the metadata *has* to be invisible, then perhaps this is still a worthwhile discussion. For clarity, there is nothing that says that the metadata I was proposing and am additionally envisioning couldn't be visible. It

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] Internet Explorer 8.0 will support microformats

2006-10-30 Thread Mike Schinkel
to process Microformats abstractly so that new ones can be added after IE8 has shipped? And if that is possible, wouldn't it make sense for us as a group to go ahead and specify a standard way to define that abstraction? -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blog http://www.welldesignedurls.org

RE: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved new proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Schinkel
administer a vBulletin forum right now and it takes almost no time at all. You don't have to worry about issues with POP3 and SMTP so it IMO is actually easier. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org

RE: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved new proposal

2006-11-03 Thread Mike Schinkel
I just don't want to be checking a mailing list, wiki AND a forum. On that point I've proposed integrating the mailing list AND the forum, to give people the option of which of the two to use. So you wouldn't have to check all three. -Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved new proposal

2006-11-03 Thread Mike Schinkel
presence and identity. I don't see why one would have to create a completely new identity. I almost always use MikeSchinkel or Mike Schinkel as applicable except in the rare cases I want to be anonymous. Not so helpful for John Smith, but for most of us it's not an issue. You can link it to your

RE: Re: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved new proposal

2006-11-03 Thread Mike Schinkel
Chris: I mean, once you're into personal preferences, Just a point of note, I brought my preferences up only to show that there were counter preferances and that one-sided preferences shouldn't be the driving factor. Which was a much more verbose way of saying what you just said. But rather

RE: [uf-discuss] Best Practice for fn and n?

2006-11-05 Thread Mike Schinkel
title=QuinlinQ./abbrnbsp; span class=family-namePublic/span,nbsp; span class=honorific-suffixM.D./span/ /span /span -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [uf-discuss] MicroFormat Ltd

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Schinkel
Ouch. Sounds like a trademark fight might occur, as commercial entities lawyer's tend to recommend that kind of thing... -Mike Schinkel President; Guides, Inc. http://www.guidesinc.com (404) 474-8948 (404) 276-1276 cell (404) 474-8949 fax skype: mike.schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

RE: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved new proposal

2006-11-07 Thread Mike Schinkel
. Microformats will be nowhere nearly as useful I as first assumed it to be. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan King Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:31 PM

RE: [uf-discuss] MicroFormat Ltd

2006-11-07 Thread Mike Schinkel
Schinkel wrote: Ouch. Sounds like a trademark fight might occur, as commercial entities lawyer's tend to recommend that kind of thing... -Mike Schinkel President; Guides, Inc. http://www.guidesinc.com (404) 474-8948 (404) 276-1276 cell (404) 474-8949 fax skype: mike.schinkel

RE: [uf-discuss] Re: MicroFormat Ltd

2006-11-07 Thread Mike Schinkel
On 11/7/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that would make it unlikely that they could sue anyone since Anybody can sue anyone for anything and hence eat up lots of lawyer bills. Whether they'd win is another subject. ;) Chris said that it is similar, and if MicroFormat Ltd's lawyer

RE: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved new proposal

2006-11-07 Thread Mike Schinkel
that it appears you want to address. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tantek Ç elik Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:22 PM To: microformats-discuss Subject: Re: [uf

RE: [uf-discuss] Re: MicroFormat, Ltd.

2006-11-08 Thread Mike Schinkel
to this email. As sich I do not appreciate being chastized in a public forum for voilating your choice of how you would like things to be handled when your guidance on how to handle the situation was given in retrospect. Respectfully, -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http

RE: [uf-discuss] Proposal: wine

2006-11-16 Thread Mike Schinkel
), but do not have the time to follow a general mailing list; indeed, a couple asked me specifically if I would set up a separate mailing list for the subject. Funny how we get to have deja vi all over again, eh? ;-) -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http

RE: [uf-discuss] Proposal: wine

2006-11-17 Thread Mike Schinkel
Frances Berriman wrote: On 11/17/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Mabbett wrote: c/f recent discussion about uF mailing lists, and my comment: For example, several academic and professional taxonomists have told me in e-mail that they would

RE: [uf-discuss] hThing microformat ... or design pattern

2006-11-18 Thread Mike Schinkel
website, this is what I think is needed. Now I haven't tried to reconcile any of this to hlisting or anything else more than just a cursory glance. I look forward to everyone's thoughts and input. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ -Original

[uf-discuss] Cite rev-reply

2006-11-19 Thread Mike Schinkel
; this post/a/cite by a href=http://theRyanKing.com/; Ryan King /a. *INSERT FLAME HERE* I don't want to say that the blog post annoys me, I want to say that the commentors on the blog post annoys me. :-) Thoughts on that usage? -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs

RE: [uf-discuss] RDFa vs microformats

2006-11-30 Thread Mike Schinkel
Thanks for the article. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Mabbett Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 10:39 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: [uf

RE: [uf-discuss] [citation] url field

2006-12-01 Thread Mike Schinkel
looked at the ISSN URN (RFC 3044)? http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3044.txt -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http

RE: [uf-discuss] [citation] url field

2006-12-02 Thread Mike Schinkel
of URLs with documented metadata, we should probably all play smartly by the rules as specified by the W3C, at least IMO. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-opacity [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/metaDataInURI-31

RE: [uf-discuss] [citation] url field

2006-12-03 Thread Mike Schinkel
Andy Mabbett wrote: What about: a class= tag isbn href=http://www.example.com/wibble/71194301X; which could be a URL on the same site as the citation, or on a trusted bibliographic website. Agreed, but is there the latter? -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http

[uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotus rep about Microformats

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Schinkel
For those on this list who are not following [whatwg], here is an interesting thread about inability to use Microformats: http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-December/00 8462.html I wonder if his issues can be addressed? -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com

RE: [uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotus rep about Microformats

2006-12-06 Thread Mike Schinkel
; Microformats has a responsibility to the web at large to ensure Microformats can scale, but all I've seen is resistence to even consider that (which is one of the reason's I've been quiet lately.) -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ [1] http

RE: [uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotus rep about Microformats

2006-12-07 Thread Mike Schinkel
if I decided to start marking up documents, as an example, using the class directory and license, for purposes other than rel-directory and re-license? How could my markup and those Microformats co-exist in the same HTML document? -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http

RE: RE: [uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotus rep about Microformats

2006-12-07 Thread Mike Schinkel
of potential for collision such as the one above, which is an example of a planned use. But maybe Profile URIs can solve this. Can you please explain how, using my example? -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org

RE: [uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotus rep about Microformats

2006-12-07 Thread Mike Schinkel
S. Sriram wrote: They would simply co-exist. Period My only response to your comments is that I strongly disagree with you, but as you appears you have a similar conviction it would be a waste of time to debate it further. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http

RE: Re: RE: [uf-discuss] [citation] url field

2006-12-07 Thread Mike Schinkel
Ironically, this sounds like another real-world (i.e. not hypothetical) example of the need to provide a way to differentiate microformats. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

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