RE: [WSG] Semantic markup for a person's name or business name

2008-03-26 Thread Michael MD
>2. Aside from it's semantic nature, is there really any "functional" use > > for > formatting data using microformats? I mean, if your format various content > using microformat "standards" - as they currently exist - is this > information then usable/parse-able on different devices? Or is the u

Re: [WSG] Semantic markup for a person's name or business name

2008-03-26 Thread Gregorio Espadas
I didn't know microformats, and I'm impressed about it. Thanks to all who give many useful links. Gregorio Espadas gespadas [at] gmail [dot] com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: htt

Re: [WSG] Semantic markup for a person's name or business name

2008-03-26 Thread Rob Crowther
Cole Kuryakin wrote: 2. Aside from it's semantic nature, is there really any "functional" use for formatting data using microformats? For some practical examples of doing stuff with hCard: Online service to translate hCard into vCard (ie. put directly into your contacts application: http:/

RE: [WSG] Semantic markup for a person's name or business name

2008-03-26 Thread Ted Drake
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:19 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Semantic markup for a person's name or business name Thanks to all for their input on this issue. The hCard link within microformats.org was very helpful. Two follow-on question though: 1. What does the &q

RE: [WSG] Semantic markup for a person's name or business name

2008-03-26 Thread Cole Kuryakin
Thanks to all for their input on this issue. The hCard link within microformats.org was very helpful. Two follow-on question though: 1. What does the "v" and "h" stand for in regards to "vCard" and "hCard", and: 2. Aside from it's semantic nature, is there really any "functional" use for format

Re: [WSG] Semantic markup for a person's name or business name

2008-03-26 Thread Michael MD
Semantic markup for a person's name or business nameI think the address tag is specifically intended for the author contact for the page itself (and only used once on a page). for hCard markup see this page: http://microformats.org/wiki/hCard If you want tools that use microformats (such as th

Re: [WSG] Semantic markup for a person's name or business name

2008-03-26 Thread Thomas Thomassen
Semantic markup for a person's name or business nameThe element is intended to provide contact information for the author of the HTML document, not any address. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.6 -Thom - Original Message - From: Cole Kuryakin To: wsg@webstan

Re: [WSG] Semantic markup for a person's name or business name

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Broadfoot
Cole Kuryakin wrote: Hello All – I’ve been reading a book by Andy Clarke which has a few pages related to micro-formats. He uses the example of marking up an address tag similar to the below using classes (note that br’s are mine for formatting): *snip* Check hCard http://microformats.