Re: [uf-discuss] Legal implications of using Microformats

2007-05-01 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, On May 1, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: It's telling that the Project:Copyrights link is to a page which has yet to be created. Yeah, that's pretty embarrassing. Can anyone comment on whether the edit blurb is inaccurate, or someone just forgot to create the Copyright?

Re: [uf-discuss] global editorial changes to the wiki - please avoid, and blocking

2007-05-01 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Tantek, On May 1, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: I apologize for the summary blocking without warning, but it is unfortunately the required response to summary global editing of the wiki without warning. I appreciate that these are difficult decisions to make, and that you at

Re: UPDATE: Re: [uf-discuss] global editorial changes to the wiki - please avoid, and blocking

2007-05-01 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Tantek, On May 1, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: AndyMabbett and Gazza, apologies for the inconvenience of the temporary blocking. Thanks very much for your patience. Blocks have been removed. Wow, that was fast. Thanks for the quick resolution. Best wishes, -- Ernie P.

Re: [uf-discuss] Authority (was: Text::Microformat - a uf parser for Perl)

2007-04-30 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Andy, On Apr 28, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I can't prevent people from calling cats dogs either, but I'm certainly going to say something when it happens. This isn't case of people calling cats dogs; it's closer to the dispute over whether a Jack Russell Terrier is a breed

Re: [uf-discuss] Best practice for the abbr pattern

2007-04-27 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Jeremy, On Apr 27, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Jeremy Keith wrote: However, the datetime can also be written with dashes and colons like this: title=2007-03-12T17:00:00 http://microformats.org/wiki/datetime-design-pattern Would everyone agree that, for the sake of screen reader users, we should

Re: [uf-discuss] Authority (was: Text::Microformat - a uf parser for Perl)

2007-04-27 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Andy, On Apr 27, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dr. Ernie Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes That's a point-of view, but not a definitive fact. Who says it's not a microformat? With what authority? Um, is there any authority you *would* accept

Re: [uf-discuss] Geo deployed on Wikipedia.

2007-04-02 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
The later is now done - every singe Wikipedia article which publishes coordinates (and that includes, cities, neighbourhoods, transport stations, hotels, hospitals, mountains, museums, etc. etc.) using a template (and there are many thousands) now includes Geo ;-) Yeah! This is a real

[uf-discuss] OT: Governance (WAS: Free Andy Mabbett!) [with two 't's]

2007-03-22 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, On Mar 19, 2007, at 7:53 AM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote: Therefore, I believe that the administrators ought to either: a) remove his moderation constraint or b) publicly state why they are not removing it http://microformats.org/wiki/governance-issues On Mon Mar 19 07:34:50 PST

[uf-discuss] OT: Free Andy Mabbet!

2007-03-19 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, With only two weeks left in Lent, I still haven't done enough penance, so I figure I need to up the ante. :-) I didn't see any response to my governance proposal http://urlx.org/ microformats.org/56ce1, so let me make a more specific request. I for one fully supported the

[uf-discuss] Governance proposal (WAS: issue rejection governance)

2007-02-26 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, On Feb 26, 2007, at 1:39 PM, James Craig wrote: I am not implying the uf group step to the deliberation level of ISO or the W3C, but some issues should not be noted as REJECTED by an individual, at least not without fair consideration and voting. If this process exists, or if there

Re: [uf-discuss] OpenID

2007-02-20 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Christopher, On Feb 20, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Christopher St John wrote: Check out the 2.0 spec. There are some changes: http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0-11.html It introduces XRI into the mix (think brand new, non-DNS naming system) Wouldn't expect it to work so well in an a

Re: [uf-discuss] Puzzled about the value of XOXO

2007-02-08 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Roger, The point of XOXO is that you can trivially encode arrays and dictionaries in straight HTML. In particular, you can use it as an alternative to, e.g., JSON, for generic data structures: http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/datatypes Somebody's even written a whole blog about such

[uf-discuss] Re: Moderation Governance

2007-02-02 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Joe, On Feb 2, 2007, at 8:22 AM, Joe Andrieu wrote: Third, although few people like a gadfly, it appears that my efforts are making some sort of difference, as evidenced by the IRC above and changes to the wiki. Following Ben's argument, all evidence suggests my opposition is working.

Re: Moderation [was RE: [uf-discuss] Andy Mabbet's moderation]

2007-02-01 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Joe, On Feb 1, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Joe Andrieu wrote: Or, if taking Andy off moderation has simply been overlooked, ok. Mistakes happen. In which case he should be allowed to post normally and we should remember as a community that we don't have the wherewithal to manage fine-tuned

[uf-discuss] Re: On emergent policy and self vs governance in common

2007-01-08 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Chris, On Jan 6, 2007, at 2:45 AM, Chris Messina wrote: I think the point is that anyone should be able to build out and see through the execution and development of a microformats, potentially entirely outside of this list, simply by religiously adhering to the principals by which we

[uf-discuss] Governance Issues Re: Banning for meta-discusion

2007-01-04 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, On Jan 3, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: That being said, I still believe it is important to track *any* outstanding issue - even meta-issues like governance, so that we as community don't forget them, and have the opportunity/reminder resolve them, even if it takes a

Re: [uf-discuss] 'wiki' management, uF style

2007-01-03 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Andy, On Jan 3, 2007, at 3:38 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I recommend you voluntarily refrain from emailing microformats lists for 24 hours at this point. One more meta-discussion email from you after you have been asked to stop will be grounds for banning from the lists. Voluntary

Re: [uf-discuss] More reverts on the 'wiki'

2006-12-12 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Andy, On Dec 12, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: Are the community happy for extra restrictions to be added to the 'wiki' in this unilateral way? Or is the community's ownership of work on microformats and its 'wiki' a myth? Speaking for myself, I am grateful for Tantek's

Re: class=hack? Re: [uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotus rep about Microformats

2006-12-08 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
may not believe or agree with that definition (not all of us do either :-), but that's the rules we play by here. If you want a more generic approach, you might be happier with GRDDL. Cheers, -- Ernie P. On Dec 8, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: On 12/8/06, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar

Re: [uf-discuss] New Microformats Cheatsheet PDF

2006-12-05 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Brian, On Dec 5, 2006, at 5:07 AM, Brian Suda wrote: All comments, suggestions, etc. are welcome. http://suda.co.uk/projects/microformats/cheatsheet/ Beautiful work; I love the table on the right! One question: why not use ? for single occurence optional, and + for one or more, like

Re: [uf-discuss] cheat-sheets, rekeyed

2006-12-05 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
/Template:cheatsheet-key This makes it easier to keep everything consistent, but results in unused items being present on some pages. The tradeoff seems worthwhile to me -- what do the rest of you think? -- Ernie P. On Dec 5, 2006, at 12:54 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dr. Ernie

Re: [uf-discuss] New Microformats Cheatsheet PDF

2006-12-05 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Brian, On Dec 5, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Brian Suda wrote: --- i think there was an reason why i didn't use ?, +, * (but i can't remember at the moment). The One or More is the UTF currency sign, for me it is sort of emtpy circle with a cross through it - if they are too similar, i can look into

[uf-discuss] cheat-sheets, rekeyed

2006-12-04 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, At Andy's invitation, I redid all the cheatsheets to use a common, regex-style key: http://microformats.org/wiki/Template:cheatsheet-key Specifically: http://microformats.org/wiki/adr-cheatsheet http://microformats.org/wiki/geo-cheatsheet

Re: [uf-discuss] XOXO and Extra Markup

2006-11-12 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Ryan, Sure, whatever -- as long as it is legal HTML, it shouldn't be a problem. You might want to check how S5 handles it: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/xoxo-structure-ref.html Cheers, - enp On Nov 12, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Ryan Cannon wrote: Greetings list, I've looked around for

[uf-discuss] Primary among alternates Re: WAS: Visible Data

2006-10-27 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi MIke, I think we may the victim of a major miscommunication, aggravated by the choice of subject. Let me start over, to see if I understand. resolve this one specific use case.) Consider these three URLs: http://www.foo.com/toyota/4runner/1999/

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-25 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Mike, Your always welcome to use HTML class name semantics or other microformat-inspired technologies in your private applications. However, that is a different thing that calling it a microformat and engaging this whole group in vetting and supporting it. If you think this could be

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats in Form Fields

2006-10-05 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Nice summary! I agree the issues are non-trivial, but I'm glad somebody is hashing them out... On Oct 5, 2006, at 7:20 AM, Ciaran McNulty wrote: Scott, Thanks for the in-depth reply, lots of good points! I've mulled it over and here are a few thoughts. On 10/5/06, Scott Reynen [EMAIL

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats in Form Fields

2006-09-28 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, On Sep 28, 2006, at 4:12 AM, Drew McLellan 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 effectively a useless/empty

Re: [uf-discuss] hidden microformats

2006-09-27 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
HI Paolo, In general hidden microformats are frowned upon, as they cause all sorts of problems. Could you give an example of the types of hidden information you want/need to provide? -- Ernie P. On Sep 27, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Paolo Negri wrote: Hi there This is my first post here,

Re: [uf-discuss] hidden microformats

2006-09-27 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
to build the uformats are well spreaded on it so I have to put the main div or whatever at a very high level of the dom which is not really nice because it tends to group even some items that are not really in his context. Paolo On 27/09/06, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI Paolo

[uf-discuss] Fwd: vobject and hcalendar

2006-09-05 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, Jeffrey Harris from OSAF was kind enough to point me to the hCalendar support in top-of-tree of vobject: http://svn.osafoundation.org/vobject/trunk/ Specifically, this class: http://svn.osafoundation.org/vobject/trunk/src/vobject/hcalendar.py Anybody feel like testing it out

Re: [uf-discuss] Ordered Lists

2006-08-29 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Paul, On Aug 29, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote: Hi, This is going to sound pretty trivial, and I hope that no one minds me asking this. I am looking for a way to do Top 10's. I don't want to suggest a Microformat or anything for this. But I was wondering if anyone has experience

Re: [uf-discuss] Ordered Lists

2006-08-29 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Paul, On Aug 29, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote: Yeah, I would like to be able to understand what the list is about, so something like a title would give a good descriptive meaning to what the items in the list relate to. For instance the title could be Favorite Films, obviously the

[uf-discuss] vobject support for hCalendar?

2006-08-10 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, I believe some of this was discussed earlier in the week, but apologies if I missed anything relevant. Anyway, Apple's new Calendaring server: http://collaboration.macosforge.org/ Uses vobject for ics parsing and generation:

[uf-discuss] eRDF = microformats?

2006-05-31 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, I apologize if this might be off-topic, but I'm honestly curious and would like to understand this better: http://www.bnode.org/archives2/58 eRDF: (+) follows the microformats principles http://research.talis.com/2005/erdf/wiki/Main/RdfInHtml From my admittedly naive perspective,

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats Article

2006-05-12 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
I concur with Tantek -- possibly the best concise yet comprehensive summary to date. I plan to pass it around quite a bit. Go Phil! -- Ernie P. On May 11, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Phil Haack wrote: Hey All, A little while ago I mentioned I was writing an article on Microformats and solicited

Re: [uf-discuss] microformats podcasts index now on wiki

2006-04-03 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Cool! I wonder if there's a way to syndicate that page so I can feed it directly into iTunes. Hmm, if our wiki used hAtom markup... -- Ernie P. On Apr 2, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Greetings, Since there have been several recent podcasts where microformats have been

Re: [uf-discuss] Format-of-Formats?

2006-03-30 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Joe, Is this format-of-formats already done? If so, I apologize, can you point me to it? If not, what has been done and would it be premature for me to start work on such a draft specification (after much feedback from everybody here, of course)? This is actually an FAQ, and a fairly

Re: [uf-discuss] Format-of-Formats?

2006-03-30 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
, something *does* manage to boil the ocean. :-) -- Ernie P. On Mar 30, 2006, at 9:28 AM, Joe Reger, Jr. wrote: On 3/30/06, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Joe, Is this format-of-formats already done? If so, I apologize, can you point me to it? If not, what has been done

[uf-discuss] Behavior and microformats

2006-03-27 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, While reading yet another design tutorial for Web 2.0 sties: http://snyke.net/blog/2006/03/25/site-design-using-prototype/ I ran across the Behaviour JavaScript library: http://bennolan.com/behaviour/ Using CSS selectors to apply JavaScript behaviors I'm not sure I understand it

[uf-discuss] Best uf-greasemonkey demo in Firefox 1.5?

2006-03-14 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, Gosh, its been quiet here lately. I'm revving up to give my ol' microformats talk again this Friday, and wanted to know if there's a good parser that works with Firefox 1.5. Any suggestions? http://microformats.org/wiki/Greasemonkey -- Ernie P.

Re: [uf-discuss] Best uf-greasemonkey demo in Firefox 1.5?

2006-03-14 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Yeah, exactly like that. :-) Thanks, I'll add it to the wiki. On Mar 14, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Pete Prodoehl wrote: http://blog.codeeg.com/tails-firefox-extension/ ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org

Re: wiki-thon? Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats.org usability review

2006-02-02 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Tantek, On Feb 2, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Ernie, if you think there are obvious holes, document them on the to-do page, because to the rest of us, there are no obvious holes, only numerous things we can do to improve the site. My apologies, I didn't mean that to come

Re: [uf-discuss] hAtom progress

2006-01-30 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Ryan, Coming up with a concrete, finite list of things remaining to do seems like a very useful idea to me. Even if people disagree with your list, that would at least help us get focused on the end goal... -- Ernie P. On Jan 30, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Ryan King wrote: So, it seems that

Re: [uf-discuss] entry permalink in hatom

2006-01-04 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Tantek, On Jan 4, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Are you suggesting we put in a stub page on the wiki for everything we re-use from HTML 4.01? (not a rhetorical question) I do think there is value in having *something* on our wiki for underused elements from HTML that are much

[uf-discuss] Newspaper XML format?

2005-12-19 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi all, I ran across this on the atom list, and wanted to pass it along in case anybody was working on a newspaper markup format. I suspect that this should ultimately be built around hAtom, but I'm not sure where (if anywhere) in belongs on the current wiki. They also seem interested

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformat Base

2005-12-02 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
On 12/1/05 8:23 PM, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I'd go ahead and play around with a microformat-based alternative to Google Base. Kudos, Scott! The best revenge is a happy life, but second-best (or perhaps the first step to that) is working code. :-) -- Ernie P. On

Re: [uf-discuss] RFC: Proposal for general purpose microformat

2005-12-02 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Abramo, On Dec 2, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Abramo Bagnara wrote: Can we reach an agreement that to use a namespace for microformats specific classes is a good thing? That is an interesting question. I know that Rohit has been asking that same question. The conventional answer is that

Re: [uf-discuss] Cross-browser JavaScript vevent parser?

2005-12-01 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Scott, On Dec 1, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Scott Reynen wrote: I'm hoping to use vevent as an AJAX tranfser format. I'm looking for a Safari-compatible JavaScript vevent parser for an intranet application (Safari is our default browser). Closest I've found is David's microformat.user.js [1],

Re: [uf-discuss] Non-HTTP/HTML microformats

2005-11-30 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Luke, On Nov 30, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Kevin Marks wrote: That would be great; I'd love some help from people more experienced in this area. Do have a look at the discussions on serialiasation and XOXO over REST we've had here. As Kevin said, this does sound very similar to what we're

alternates Re: [uf-discuss] XOXO eye for an XML guy

2005-11-16 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi David, On Nov 16, 2005, at 1:06 AM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote: I just wanted to note the use of alternates as a pattern here -- i.e. a blog's URI + alternate URIs. We've seen this pattern before during discussions of MediaRSS as a profile for encoding alternates of the same

Re: [uf-discuss] xdmp profiles not enough for parsing?

2005-11-16 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Tantek, On Nov 16, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Ok, I'll put it yet another way. The specific addition that Phil was asking for was for which properties went inside which other properties. While it may seem this makes writing a generic parser easier for a specific instance,