[uf-discuss] Re: New Wiki Page: widget-brainstorming

Kevin Lawver kevin at lawver.net
Fri Oct 28 13:23:31 PDT 2005


Ryan,
	Lower-case it will be then.  I don't expect to update the spec again 
until next week, but lower-case and hCard integration are on my to-do list.

Kevin

Ryan King wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Kevin Lawver wrote:
> 
>> Mark,
>>     We didn't do a very good job at looking at existing  microformats 
>> for the relevant pieces we could re-use (because no  format really 
>> exists for "widgets"), but we plan on it.  Your point  about hCard is 
>> excellent. The author info should probably just BE  an hCard.
> 
> 
> Hey Kevin-
> 
> I guess you relalize now that, even if there's nothing for "widgets,"  
> there is always stuff worth reusing. Remember, we're building  
> microformats from the bottom up, composing new ones out of  preexisting 
> ones.
> 
>> Good point on camelCase as well.  We'll look at switching them.
> 
> 
> We don't call it the "lowercase semantic web" for nothing. :D
> 
>>
>>     Is word-word the preferred format for classes in microformats?  
>> Personally, I usually use camelCase, but if there's already a  
>> convention, we'll stick to that.
> 
> 
> I think many of use have found that using all lower case works much  
> better on the web, so its become a rule-of-thumb for developing  
> microformats (maybe this needs to be on the wiki somewhere?).
> 
> -ryan
> 
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