Tantek Çelik wrote:
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Forgive my newness to this, but: could you provide some examples of
where the generalised title-design-pattern would be problematic?
Here is a simple (theoretical) example (hReview fragment)
<span class="rating" title="Three means fair">3</span>
There is no ambiguity here. From the spec, the parser should
understand that the integer is the machine-readable data. Quoting
from the Microformats wiki entry for hReview:
"rating. optional. fixed point integer [1.0-5.0], with optional
alternate worst (default:1.0) and/or best (default:5.0), also fixed
point integers, and explicit value."
Would this noise be a problem for end users, or just for the tools
that
consume microformats?
Neither directly.
Rather, it would be a problem for the sites who have already published
microformats, because we would be redefining something they are
already
doing.
We're not suggesting that existing Microformat parsers remove their
support for abbr-design-pattern. We're suggesting that Microformat
authors stop using abbr-design-pattern for data not mean to be
consumed by humans.
I would expect that sites like Technorati and plug-ins like Operator
and Tails, continue parsing abbr-design-pattern as-is to avoid
breaking backwards compatibility.
In otherwords, while *currently*, the use of a title attribute on
non-abbr
microformatted elements has *NO IMPACT* on the microformat
semantics of that
non-abbr element, with the title-design-pattern, those sites that
were using
'title' for "advisory information" would suddenly find that that
"advisory
information" had been redefined to take the place of a microformat
value,
thus very likely breaking their microformatted content.
Only if that "advisory information" matched the expected data format
for that particular class. Do you know of any current implementation
where this would fail? Examples "in the wild" of course. ;-)
James
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