[uf-discuss] Need for an MF styleguide

Drew McLellan lists at allinthehead.com
Fri Apr 7 07:09:18 PDT 2006


On 6 Apr 2006, at 02:23, Chris Messina wrote:

> Saw a discussion about XHTML styleguides...
>
> I think we need something equally digestible for publishers... that
> makes it super super simple to "get and apply" microformats... Tara
> and I discussed this as a "Dummy's Guide" but I think a
> "Practitioner's Guide" would be more valuable. Consider these
> examples:
>
> http://www.utexas.edu/visualguidelines/
> http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/
>
> We need something that a designer/web programmer can come to and leave
> w/ 2 examples of each microformat that they can apply right away.
>
> I know that we need execution, but I just wanted to put this on the  
> table.

I could chip in with this.

Any reason not to make this a section of the wiki? A good start might  
be to come up with an outline of sections, and then they can be  
tackled in turn as time allows.

drew.


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