Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations (or how to choose abbreviations)

2006-10-23 Thread Ryan King
On Oct 21, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Charles Roper wrote: On 21/10/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think the intention is that the raw markup of a uF be human-readable first. This is a good point; what, exactly, should be human readable first? I always assumed it was the rendered

Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations (or how to choose abbreviations)

2006-10-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Rines [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes And yet we have geo. I think comparing geo and sci, etc. is not a great example as I think geo can be thought of as a well known abbreviation. Yes, it clearly identifies rocks, to geologists ;-) But seriously, do you

Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations (or how to choose abbreviations)

2006-10-21 Thread Charles Roper
On 21/10/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And yet we have geo. I think comparing geo and sci, etc. is not a great example as I think geo can be thought of as a well known abbreviation. Yes, it clearly identifies rocks, to geologists ;-) But seriously, do you really think it's well

Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations (or how to choose abbreviations)

2006-10-21 Thread Benjamin West
I think this has been mentioned before, but I'll mention it again. From http://microformats.org/wiki/geo: geo is a 1:1 representation of the geo property in the vCard standard (RFC2426 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt)) in XHTML As you can see, the authors of the spec weren't the ones

Re: RE: [uf-discuss] Size considerations (or how to choose abbreviations)

2006-10-20 Thread Charles Roper
On 20/10/06, Brian Suda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- the tricky thing is that there are no namespaces in Microformats, so if you use cur, sure it is scopped to 'money', but it is now a 'reserved word' for all of microformats. As it was pointed out in a previous message, then what happens to

Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations (or how to choose abbreviations)

2006-10-19 Thread Christopher Rines
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charles Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] in addition to other things said: Should bin, var, cult, etc., be written in full? (I think not, to save bloating file sizes) These abbreviations are absolutely fine within the very narrow domain of biological nomenclature and

RE: [uf-discuss] Size considerations (or how to choose abbreviations)

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Schinkel
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Rines Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:45 PM To: microformats-discuss@microformats.org Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations (or how to choose abbreviations) In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charles Roper [EMAIL