[microformats-discuss] Shouldn't hCard use <address>?

[Bud Gibson]

Well, the example helps clear up the point.  Probably a good practice  
for moving these conversations along.

The list is very new.  There is a link to the archive at:

<http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss/>

but when I tried it yesterday, it returned a file not found error.

Ryan, are you the guy to fix that?

Bud
On Jun 25, 2005, at 7:21, Robert Bachmann wrote:

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> Bud Gibson wrote:
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>> Stephen:
>>
>> You are right that <div>s and <span>s do not imply any special
>> semantics.  All of that comes in the class (and where relevant rel)
>> attributes for these elements.
>>
>> The trick to microformats is that they use standard xhtml markup
>> elements but qualify their meaning
>> through the class attribute.  This admittedly can be less  
>> powerful  than
>> going and defining new markup elements (say through a namespace)   
>> that
>> could then have their own special attributes, etc.  However, by
>> avoiding namespaces or even defining whole new vocabularies,
>> microformats remove a lot of barriers to implementation.   
>> Perhaps,  most
>> importantly, implementers can use markup they are familiar with.
>>
>
> I think that Stephen wanted to say that something like e.g:
>
> <address class="vcard">
>  <a class="url fn" href="http://tantek.com/">
>   Tantek Çelik
>  </a>
>  <div class="org">Technorati</div>
> </address>
>
> ... is more semantic, than e.g:
>
> <div class="vcard">
>  <a class="url fn" href="http://tantek.com/">
>   Tantek Çelik
>  </a>
>  <div class="org">Technorati</div>
> </div>
>
> Robert
>
> P.S:
> I'm new to this list.
> Is there an archiv of this malinglist?
> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss/  
> links to
> the non-existing page
> http://microformats.org/pipermail/microformats-discuss/
>
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