[uf-discuss] Microformats and forms

2007-01-25 Thread Chris Newell
Hi, My head is spinning from reading too much of the website at once so forgive me if I've missed the obvious. The Microformats in REST Web Services page appears to concern the use of microformats to describe a web service. Has it been considered whether microformats could also be used with

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and forms

2007-01-25 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
e.g. this site needs my address details but luckily my browser has spotted their form will accept my hcard. Hi Chris, that's an interesting application idea but I think the idea behind a microformat is to describe content in the HTML document in a standardized format (based on common usage

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and forms

2007-01-25 Thread Wolfgang Wiese
Hi Hi Chris, that's an interesting application idea but I think the idea behind a microformat is to describe content in the HTML document in a standardized format (based on common usage elsewhere such as vCard) rather than store it externally (for use by the browser to populate a form). I

Re: [uf-discuss] moving latitude longitude shorthand from brainstorming to geo, hCard

2007-01-25 Thread Dimitrios Zachariadis
--- Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes any general opinions or thoughts on the latitude longitude shorthand? Thought will need to be given to how that is transferred to off-world locations. This may mean requiring

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and forms

2007-01-25 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Ara Pehlivanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: e.g. this site needs my address details but luckily my browser has spotted their form will accept my hcard. Hi Chris, that's an interesting application idea but I think the idea behind a microformat is to describe content in the HTML document in a

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and forms

2007-01-25 Thread Chris Newell
At 13:35 25/01/2007, you wrote: Hi Chris, that's an interesting application idea but I think the idea behind a microformat is to describe content in the HTML document in a standardized format (based on common usage elsewhere such as vCard) rather than store it externally (for use by the

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and forms

2007-01-25 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Chris Newell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 13:35 25/01/2007, you wrote: Hi Chris, that's an interesting application idea but I think the idea behind a microformat is to describe content in the HTML document in a standardized format (based on common usage elsewhere such as vCard) rather than

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and forms

2007-01-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jan 25, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Chris Newell wrote: At 13:35 25/01/2007, you wrote: Hi Chris, that's an interesting application idea but I think the idea behind a microformat is to describe content in the HTML document in a standardized format (based on common usage elsewhere such as vCard)

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and forms

2007-01-25 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
I dont think this is the point, Chris wanted to focus on. If there would be a standarized format how to descripe form elements it would help developers of extentions, plugins and useragents to automatically prefill it. (Instead of just guessing if its possibly a login-field). There are two

[uf-discuss] A Hello! (And a new extension...)

2007-01-25 Thread andy
Hi, I'm a little late to the game, having not picked up on the specifics of Microformats until the dConstruct '06 talk. Since then we (a small group) have been toying with the possibility of a new browser extension; and have recently made it a reality. We are a little guilty of just

Re: [uf-discuss] hCode microformat proposal

2007-01-25 Thread anders conbere
On 1/24/07, Colin Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 2007, at 7:30 PM, anders conbere wrote: All over the web there are code snippets and code examples, and just plain people showing of little programs they've written. This data is typical acompanied by an author or list of

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and forms

2007-01-25 Thread Chris Newell
At 14:27 25/01/2007, Scott wrote: On Sep 28, 2006, at 5:58 AM, Ben Ward wrote: What if I was to mark up the form (and fields) with hCard classes? Good idea? Bad idea? I strikes me that it could be useful for auto- complete applications, but not sure if it would ‘pollute’ the web with

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats-related Workshop and Scripting Challenge (includes Video iPod prize)

2007-01-25 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
Would be nice to see some submissions from the microformats community, Would be nice if the technorati Microformats Search had an API (if it does I can't find it). A. ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats-related Workshop and Scripting Challenge (includes Video iPod prize)

2007-01-25 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
Would be nice to see some submissions from the microformats community, Would be nice if the technorati Microformats Search had an API (if it does I can't find it). Euh, I just noticed that I started my remark with the same words as the quote. This wasn't meant to be facetious or

[uf-discuss] XPN: Xhtml Professional Network - idea

2007-01-25 Thread Kilian Valkhof
Dear Microformat-discuss readers, First, forgive me if I'm screwing this up, I know absolutely nothing about mailing lists. Secondly, I joined because of XPN, an ‘XHTML Professionals Network’ microformat. I thought this up at the end of December, and tried to contact Eric, Tantek and Matt

Re: [uf-discuss] hCode microformat proposal

2007-01-25 Thread anders conbere
I've added a page to the wiki to catalog examples of source code being published online and the ways they do that. http://microformats.org/wiki/code-examples I suppose I'll be filling that in over the next couple of days. ~ Anders On 1/25/07, anders conbere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [uf-discuss] hCode microformat proposal

2007-01-25 Thread anders conbere
You certainly know more about it than I do, though I have no qualms adding it to the wiki. It certainly would solve a bunch of the issues regarding the added markup for syntax highlighting. As for where that should go... it seems to me like it could be sited as an example of existing solutions,

Re: [uf-discuss] hCode microformat proposal

2007-01-25 Thread Tim White
On 1/25/2007, Anders said: I've added a page to the wiki to catalog examples of source code being published online and the ways they do that. http://microformats.org/wiki/code-examples I suppose I'll be filling that in over the next couple of days. ~ Anders snip All over the web there are

[uf-discuss] Some (newbie) questions on microformats

2007-01-25 Thread stephen mulcahy
Hi, I'm coming across an increasing number of references to microformats and already do some work in the area of the Semantic Web so I'm trying to see the big picture of how it all fits together. I've read a few introductory articles and faqs but still have some questions about how microformats

Re: [uf-discuss] hCode microformat proposal

2007-01-25 Thread anders conbere
On 1/25/07, Tim White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/25/2007, Anders said: I've added a page to the wiki to catalog examples of source code being published online and the ways they do that. http://microformats.org/wiki/code-examples I suppose I'll be filling that in over the next couple of

Re: [uf-discuss] hCode microformat proposal

2007-01-25 Thread anders conbere
On 1/25/07, Jonathan C Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 2007, at 10:30 PM, anders conbere wrote: All over the web there are code snippets and code examples, and just plain people showing of little programs they've written. This data is typical acompanied by an author or list of

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and forms

2007-01-25 Thread anders conbere
I can't help but consider the security implications here, password managers have been giving the browser developers hell this whole last year, in attempting to determine what forms are safe to submit private data to, and which are not. This kind of here's my hCard exclamation seems nice in

[uf-discuss] wikia and hcard?

2007-01-25 Thread Benjamin West
http://wikia.com/wiki/Collaboration_of_the_month/Genealogy/Blurb These folks just popped up on my radar, and I think there is a great opportunity here. I don't know too much about their requirements, but this is a quote from the web page: - Of particular importance is developing a

Re: [uf-discuss] XPN: Xhtml Professional Network - idea

2007-01-25 Thread Chris Messina
Hey Killian, Take a look at XBN -- we brought up this idea awhile back on Tara's urging... http://tinyurl.com/2qa5pc There's also more there generally about the idea of professional relationships. I favor a moderate advancement of professional relationships, especially in the context of

Re: [uf-discuss] hCode microformat proposal

2007-01-25 Thread Tim White
On 1/25/2007 Anders said: I agree what I'm proposing is more of a macro-format or a conglomerate of several microformats. ...snip... First is in consumption, with hproduct and hreview we have by and large a single class of consumption, reviews, products etc. Tools used to scrape for those will

RE: [uf-discuss] XPN: Xhtml Professional Network - idea

2007-01-25 Thread Steve Ganz
On Thursday, January 25, 2007 5:53 PM Chris Messina wrote: Take a look at XBN -- we brought up this idea awhile back on Tara's urging... http://tinyurl.com/2qa5pc There's also more there generally about the idea of professional relationships. I favor a moderate advancement of

Re: [uf-discuss] Some (newbie) questions on microformats

2007-01-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jan 25, 2007, at 3:01 PM, stephen mulcahy wrote: I've read a few introductory articles and faqs but still have some questions about how microformats fit together and work. When I first came across microformats I had the (mistaken) impression that they were a way for anyone to arbitrarily

Re: [uf-discuss] LA Meetup, end of the month?

2007-01-25 Thread Michael McCracken
Hi, is anyone still interested in an LA meetup this weekend? I see 4 names on the wiki page, and a couple of votes for places. That ought to be enough for an interesting meeting - who's in? -mike On 1/18/07, josh lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael - Thanks for creating the page! I just

Re: [uf-discuss] XPN: Xhtml Professional Network - idea

2007-01-25 Thread Ben Buchanan
Hi there, Secondly, I joined because of XPN, an 'XHTML Professionals Network' microformat. I thought this up at the end of December, and tried to Well my immediate question is why not simply extend XFN? Really XFN represents a small subset of all possible social relationships; and I can think