Hello Ben, Nice of you to join us. On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 00:34 +0000, Ben Ward wrote: > 'Title' came from vcard, and trying to bodge its semantics into > hAudio is just going to create a mess.
haudio does not "Bodge" anything but thanks for the detrimental comment. The Only place on the Microformats wiki I can find any "definition" of what "title" in hcard actually means are: Job title or functional position of the object. http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-classes and See section 3.5.1 of RFC 2426. http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-profile How do "objects" have titles? hAudio does NOT reuse "title" from hcard, because its actual meaning seems deliberately vague and inaccurate to say the least. we mean: "title" "what is to be used as a title for the object" and can be expanded into "Contents are a short textual description used to identify the object among interested parties" Its deliberately backwards compatible with the definition in hcard but also can be re used in the FUTURE in: Recipies http://microformats.org/wiki/recipe-examples Things http://microformats.org/wiki/item-examples Products http://microformats.org/wiki/product-examples Books http://microformats.org/wiki/book-info-examples Film http://microformats.org/wiki/video-info-examples Works of art http://microformats.org/wiki/workofart-brainstorming Media on a whole http://microformats.org/wiki/media-info-examples Jobs? http://microformats.org/wiki/job-listing-examples Citations http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-examples Blog Posts http://microformats.org/wiki/blog-post-examples I think the benefits far outweigh any "theoretical" chance that it might break hcard, have you actually studied how many publishers actually use "title" in their markup? have a look at your "real world" examples and get back to me. http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples-in-wild-reviewed http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples-in-wild-with-problems Thanks Martin McEvoy > Even if there's a tenuous way > to make the definition fit both, it's just a bad idea to generalise > two things which are very clearly not the same. ‘title’ a desirable, > valuable field name, but it's gone. In our µf world, it's got a > definition (which is not the most common English usage, it's true) > and if it doesn't map to a usage in another proposed format then > we'll have to use something else. _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
