Maybe the size per amount marked-up can be addressed by focusing on providing a page-global solution? I don't know what's been discussed along those lines but here are my three cents:
1.) It seems like it should be a Design Pattern and not just something for a single Microformat 2.) I think it should allow multiple "defaults"; consider a page with 1500 money values where 500 are in USD, 500 are in GBP, and 500 are in EUR. Plus satisfying #1 would require multiples. 3.) I think it should be able to be applied anywhere in the document; i.e. inside the <body> tag. Consider a Wiki or a CMS that doesn't allow a page author to modify the headers of a page. JM3CW. -Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Rines Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 12:58 AM To: microformats-discuss@microformats.org Subject: RE: [uf-discuss] Size considerations (or how to choose) Hey Mike, This is an very good/interesting example... In my opinion amount is a really difficult one to abbreviate (or any measure for that matter) as it can be used to describe a lot of other things for which there is not yet a microformat but cur (for currency) is interesting as just off the top of my head I don't think currency is used in a lot of other situations but could we abbreviate current (if we did something electrical) with cur? I guess this reinforces my point that while useful abbreviations in human-readable things are tricky at best. 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 things said: > I have a question about that. I'll use the example of money because > it's one I'm more familiar > with. In this particular case, we have money, currency, and amount: > <span class="money"> > <abbr class="currency" title="USD">$</abbr> > <span class="amount">5.99</span> > </span> > However, and this is an honest question, isn't "currency" and "amount" > really only valid in context with "money?" Wouldn't that make it okay > to abbreviate the > children of money, like so?: > <span class="money"> > <abbr class="cur" title="USD">$</abbr> > <span class="amt">5.99</span> > </span> ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss