[microformats-discuss] Weblog entries and forum posts

[Tantek Ç elik]

On 8/11/05 10:37 AM, "Geoffrey Glass" <geof at geof.net> wrote:

> Hello David,

Hi Geoffrey and welcome to the list.

> I'm very interested in a microformat for forum posts, which I think have
> virtually the same requirements as blog posts.  While I haven't thought
> of any significant differences, someone else might.

I agree, there is a significant amount of overlap there.

Consider adding your use cases and examples to the appropriate wiki page for
blog post formats.


> In my case, I need hooks for Javascript to extract information from
> forum posts in order to support annotation and contextualized copy-paste
> operations for individual posts on a page [1].  In future, I see this
> kind of functionality could be external to a web application (e.g. in a
> browser extension), but for that we need a standard.  Your sample format
> would satisfy me, as it has all the necessary properties (content,
> title, author, date, url), and is very close to the Atom-based format I
> am currently using.
> 
> Geof
> 
> [1] http://www.geof.net/code/annotation/


Sounds like great material to add to the wiki.

Thanks,

Tantek