On 4/19/06, Ryan Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Besides, doesn't dtstart and dtend seem a little, well, cold?
And 'dday' isn't? ;) It seems like the use of birthdays in vcards is telling in this example... after all, you want to know a birthday in order to celebrate it -- i.e. send someone a card. It's typically not stored in your address book to gauge time passed (though determining age can be useful). In the example given, I believe that we're looking at a use of hcalendar -- not hcard. We want to know the length of time and the specific period that someone lived -- especially in the context of other lifetimes. Storing the date of someone's death in a vcard seems a bit peculiar... though I suppose useful if you're doing automated processing -- like sending out tax notices. In that case, 'dday' would be appropriate, since it would be used as a criterium test for whether someone meets the criteria for receiving such a notice (namely, that they're still alive). So, to summarize. In this case, I think hcalendar in the context of the hcard makes sense (perhaps a combination of both). In other cases (as in, "Einstein, deceased: 1955, Franklin, deceased: 1790"), you'd want to use 'dday' and leave out the hcal stuff. These are simply my opinions, but I thought I'd throw them out anyway. Chris > > > On 18 Apr 2006, at 5:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > How do I say "Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955)" > > using hCard? Specifically, what is the best way of expressing a > > person's life dates? > > > > "bday" seems like an obvious choice for date of birth. Would adding a > > term like "dday" be appropriate for date of death? > > > > Or would it be better to use "dtstart" and "dtend" from hCalendar? > > This feels more elegant, except that "bday" is a more semantically > > precise than "dtstart". > > > > Or maybe some hybrid? perhaps class="bday dtstart" for birthday and > > class="dtend" for death date? > > > > Tim. > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
