[uf-discuss] Threaded Comments

[Stephen Paul Weber]

You might consider just looking at XOXO pure as a route too, and
extracting the comment portion of the XOXO Blog Format
<http://blogxoxo.blogspot.com/2006/01/xoxo-blog-format.html> (as is
often done and is shown on
<http://microformats.org/wiki/comments-formats>) and nesting that way.
 Since XOXO lends itself easily to nesting, this makes some sense.
   -- Singpolyma

On 10/11/06, David Janes <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> wrote:
> This will be an excellent time to mention, for the purposes of FYI to
> all, the Atom Threading  extensions [1]. Someone else can jump in and
> mention The Process.
>
> Regards, etc...
> David
>
> [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4685.txt
>
> On 10/11/06, Ashley Kyd <ashkyd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear The List,
> >
> > I'm in the planning stages of writing a piece of software that's going
> > to depend heavily on microformats. Ideally I'd like to implement a
> > threaded comment system, which by the looks of it hasn't been discussed
> > under the comment discussion on the wiki.
> >
> > I can see issues with a microformat that covers both threaded and
> > non-threaded comments, however.
> >
> > Take the following non-markup example of a threaded conversation (as
> > seen in vBulletin & DeviantArt):
> >
> > Mary: Hello
> >   Tom: Hello, Mary!
> >     Mary: Hi, Tom.
> >   Betty: Welcome.
> > Joe: Completely unrelated to the above.
> >
> > Compare this to the linear version, in use by most software today:
> >
> > Mary:   Hello
> > Tom:    Hello, Mary!
> > Mary:   Hi, Tom.
> > Betty:  Welcome.
> > Joe:    Completely unrelated to the above.
> >
> > The issue comes when you try to create a microformat that encompasses
> > both styles.
> >
> > Ideally, a threaded conversation would include nested elements (for
> > example, lists) to show a relationship.
> >
> > <ol>
> >   <li>Mary: Hello
> >     <ol>
> >       <li>Tom: Hello, Mary!</li>
> >     </ol>
> >   </li>
> > </ol>
> >
> > However, a linear discussion would be better suited with just the one
> > list.
> >
> > <ol>
> >   <li>Mary: Hello</li>
> >   <li>Tom: Hello, Mary!</li>
> > </ol>
> >
> > The problem is that just a single list shows no explicit relationship to
> > the last comment. So if the microformat was going to include some method
> > of determining a comment's parent (who the comment is replying to,)
> > there will have to be two meanings - one for nested elements, and one
> > for linear elements.
> >
> > Concise version:
> >
> > * Threaded comments have a semantic relationship with the last comment.
> > * Linear comments have an _implied_ relationship with the last comment.
> > * Any microformat is going to have to have two modes: one threaded, and
> >   one not.
> >
> > Is what I'm saying making sense?
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Ashley Kyd
> >   Making trouble for everyone.
> >
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