Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats to describe a broadcast

2008-07-11 Thread Tom Morris
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm working for Channel4 on a new programme guide and am interested to > know if there was any resolution made on the discussion the BBC took > part in early last year... > http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-disc

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats to describe a broadcast

2008-07-11 Thread Ben Ward
Hi Tom, Is anyone aware of any other programme guides which have employed the hCalendar microformat to date? I note that this doesn't seem to have been acheived in the current BBC listings. We've got hCalendar on all of Yahoo's UK TV listings: • http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/listings/2008-0

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats to describe a broadcast

2008-07-11 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hi Tom They were there Then they weren't http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/removing_microformats_from_bbc. shtml On 11/7/08 16:56, "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm working for Channel4 on a new programme guide and am interested to > know if there was any resolution made

[uf-discuss] Microformats to describe a broadcast

2008-07-11 Thread Tom
Hi, I'm working for Channel4 on a new programme guide and am interested to know if there was any resolution made on the discussion the BBC took part in early last year... http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html Is anyone aware of any other programme guide

Re: [uf-discuss] Human and machine readable data format

2008-07-11 Thread Ameer Dawood
Hi, Just one more thing to add. Microformats should be designed in such a way that authors are not obliqued to wrrite up a spcific date format for display to users. If we are to follow the idea of a machine-readable as well as human-readable date format, then authors would be obliqued to use that

Re: [uf-discuss] Human and machine readable data format

2008-07-11 Thread Dan Brickley
Toby A Inkster wrote: Paul Wilkins wrote: We should leverage the computers ability to do the hard work for us. Date Friday, July the 11th 2008 As I've said before, although my parser does support dates in this format, I strongly recommend *not* allowing these per spec, as it will lead to un

[uf-discuss] Human and machine readable data format

2008-07-11 Thread Toby A Inkster
Paul Wilkins wrote: We should leverage the computers ability to do the hard work for us. Date Friday, July the 11th 2008 As I've said before, although my parser does support dates in this format, I strongly recommend *not* allowing these per spec, as it will lead to unpredictable and incon

[uf-discuss] Human and machine readable data format

2008-07-11 Thread Toby A Inkster
Martin McEvoy wrote: Date Friday, July the 11th 2008 There are a couple of problems with this: Firstly, the class element may contain more than two classes - e.g. it may contain some others that have been added for styling or Javascript purposes. When there are more than two classes