[uf-discuss] permalinks for microformat chunks of pages: use the 'id' attribute on root microformat elements

[Chris Messina]

I've been suggesting this for awhile. There are numerous benefits,
besides addressing.

For one thing, I'd like to see an AJAX library that pulls out one or
more discontinuous DIVs from a remote webpage into the local page --
doing something like an iframe does, but using the remote page
essentially as a database.

This also is useful for the notion of including remote data by
reference (http://microformats.org/wiki/include-pattern).

Chris

On 6/22/06, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> In my experience with both searching for microformats and revealing them and
> linking to them, I have found an interesting pattern that I would like to
> share with folks.
>
> The microformat chunks (e.g. hCards, hCalendar events, hReviews etc.) that
> have an "id" attribute are much easier to automatically reference (and thus
> link to and browser/scroll to from search results) than those without.
>
> I've done this with my hCard on my home page: http://tantek.com/
>
> E.g.
>
> <span class="vcard" id="myhcard">
>  <a class="url fn" href="http://andy.example.com">Andy Smith</a>
> </span>
>
>
> When you mark up people/companies as hCards or hCalendar events or hReviews,
> along with other things on a single page, try using an "id" attribute on the
> root element (the element with class="vcard" etc.) and report back how ti
> works with you.
>
> If this works for folks, I'll add it to hcard-authoring as a recommended
> good practice.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tantek
>
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