On Apr 18, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Sam Sethi wrote:
Hi
The code below is from Tantek's own website which I looked at as
part of my
learning and a few things confused me.
1. Tantek's book reviews are inside a vcard -why? (see below) I
would have
thought they would have been inside an hreview. The only reason I
can think
of it because hreview does not seem to have a rel= field although the
hreview creator does allow a nested vcard inside the hreview if you
choose
the item to be a person. So is this a way to embed the authors
hcard and
thus a rel= statement about the author? Although as Tantek has
mentioned
before would this rel= statement be confused with me having a
relationship
to the book? So I am not sure how you could embedd the author's hcard
within the review and thus the rel=
Or is this not possible which is why Tantek has created a vcard for
a book
review?
<ol><li class="vcard"><cite><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735713286/ref%
3Dnosim/theroguelibra-20/103-9009587-4105435"><img
src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0735713286.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg";
alt="Web Design On A Shoe String" /></a></cite> <a class="url"
href="http://roguelibrarian.com"; rel="friend colleague met"><abbr
class="fn" title="Carrie Bickner">CB</abbr></a></li>
No, the hcard is for Carrie Bickner, the fact that there's also a
book link in there is irrelevant, as that is not captured in the
hcard vocabulary at all.
2. Also I noted that the class=hreview for this microformat not
vreview.
Would it not make sense to have class=hcard and class=hevent to
make things
consistent? I'm sure this has been discussed before.
Actually its more important to not invent new names for preexisting
semantics. Since we use vcard semantics, we call it 'vcard'.
Interestingly, the format called 'iCalendar' uses 'VCALENDAR' in its
format, because that's what iCalendar's precedent (vCalendar) used.
3. I know it is possible to embed a picture URL within an event
listing
using <img src= .../> but is this part of the hcalendar microformat? I
cannot find a reference. There is a photo url for the hcard and so
I thought
of just using the hcard for my event listings bcause often there is
an event
logo and it would be good to include this in my event blog list.
There is no photo or logo in hcalendar, but you can use the url
property for images.
4. Final observations from a newbie. The tails add-in for FF is
great but
it does not pick up the times within the hcalendar Microformat? Also
Tantek's hcalendar creator does not work with IE7 but does with FF
1.5+ any
reason?
I'm not sure if the Tails author is around, but someone who knows
more about it than I will have to answer that question.
As to the hcalendar creator, that's actually my work. I know there's
a few issues with IE, I just haven't had time to check them out (esp.
since I don't have a windows box currently), but I'll try to find
some time, soon.
-ryan
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