[uf-discuss] Apple adds support for hcard in dotmac webmail

[Chris Messina]

On 10/29/06, Scott Reynen <scott at randomchaos.com> wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
>
> > On 10/29/06, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 10/29/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Put it this way: there's a convergence coming between OpenID,
> >> > microformats (especially XFN and hcard) and being able to specify
> >> > assertions about a given hcard without having all information,
> >> in my
> >> > thinking, is valuable.
> >>
> >> Also been some discussion on Planet RDF about using OpenID URLs as
> >> identifier for FOAF and such (they are just URIs, after all), which I
> >> also think a good idea.
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> > Thoughts?
> >>
> >> In the absence of an OpenID, borrow another approach from the FOAF
> >> world: use a hash of an email address?
> >
> > Like MicroID does?
> >
> > Again, this stuff has to work in the absense of either, since in
> > Address Book (on the mac at least) nothing is required; in hcard, only
> > "n" or "fn" is required.
>
> It seems there's a lot of thought around this already in the wiki:
>
> http://microformats.org/wiki/uid-brainstorming
>
> Or is there something different about this recent thread that I'm
> missing?
>
> Peace,
> Scott

Oh! Hadn't seen that!

But this is something *in the wild* and should be paid some attention to.

Chris


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