Hello
I have updated some of the pages relating to a comment microformat see:
http://microformats.org/wiki/comment-examples
http://microformats.org/wiki/comment-formats
And also
http://microformats.org/wiki/comment-brainstorming
I believe a simple comment format is achievable, but first I have some
things that need to be discussed
The common consensus is that a comment format should rest in the realm
of hAtom particularly hEntry, I kind of agree accept for one or two points
The hAtom spec says :
"an Entry /SHOULD/ have an Entry Title"
Unfortunately None of the comment examples Support an entry-title
element, in fact the "title" of a comment rarely occurs in common
practice. How would a comment microformat (should it reuse hatom terms)
resolve the concept of entry-title?
http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom#Entry_Title
The hAtom spec' also says:
an Entry /SHOULD/ have an Entry Permalink
Permalinks to comments DO occur but only around 40% of the time in the
examples I have studied, but more often than that there is no permalink
at all. The easy solution to that I suppose is require that every
comment /must/ have a unique ID then a "permalink" can be generated
into a fragment url eg: http://someweb.com/page#comment1, but isnt this
imposing too much on would be authors by explicitly stating that every
comment /must/ have an ID
http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom#Entry_Permalink
Thanks.
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Martin McEvoy
http://weborganics.co.uk/
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