On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 16:23 -0800, Tantek =?ISO-8859-1?B?xw==?=elik wrote: > On 12/14/07 3:55 PM, "Martin McEvoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 23:18 +0000, Martin McEvoy wrote: > >> I do NOT however believe that machine data should be displayed in a > >> people area such as @title, I think machine data can be stored > >> elsewhere > >> in a document such as in the <head> in a list of <link>'s or <meta>'s > > This is an anti-pattern.
I know you are correct, sorry that was just trying to make people think a little outside the box :) get the flow of conversation going. > > Disconnecting data (or meta-data, whatever you prefer to call it) from its > context inevitably leads to corruption, and loss of fidelity. Meta keywords > rotted for example. One person writes the template with the head and link > and meta, and another puts the content in the page, etc. etc. > > > > No but seriously, with my web designer hat on if you are concerned about > > accessibility issues or abuse of the abbr pattern this is something > > worth thinking about. > > > > <abbr title="PT3M23S"><span > > title="three minutes twenty three seconds"> > > 3m 23s > > </span></abbr> > > > > title distraction. > > > > I don't think there is any abuse of the abbr design pattern in the above > > example and it keeps machine data out of peoples faces. > > Thanks Martin, this is an excellent example. you're welcome :) Martin > > Tantek > > _______________________________________________ > 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