[uf-discuss] Tentative proposal for "What's New" listings

Thu Sep 21 15:44:25 PDT 2006

Just specifiy an author for the page in an <address> block and you're set.

Regards, etc...

On 9/21/06, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> In message <D2ED89E7-FBD4-4497-AE3D-1E2AAAA1A365 at infocraft.com>, Matthew
> Levine <matthew at infocraft.com> writes
>
> >On Sep 21, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> >
> >> Would there be any mileage in a microformat for marking-up each entry,
> >> so that they could be extracted by user-agents, and so that  third-
> >> party utilities could compile RSS feeds (or indeed do other things
> >>with
> >> them)?
>
> >Take a look at the hAtom draft. This should fit your needs.
>
> Thank you, but if you look at:
>
>         http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/new.htm
>
> (or the other examples I provided) you can see that (unless I've
> misunderstood the spec) hAtom seems to be overkill.
>
> There's no "author" on each entry, which is a requirement for hAtom -
> nor can I see why there should be, since every entry on the page has the
> same author.
>
> There is no headline/ entry pair; just a single piece of text describing
> the change.
>
> All I need to include, to convey my content, is:
>
>         <body class="whatsnew"> [1]
>
>         <h1 class="author vcard">
>                 <span class="fn org">[Orgasnition name]</span>
>         </h1>
>
>         [...]
>
>         <tr class="new-item"> [2]
>                 <th scope="row" class="hcalendar>
>                         <abbr class="dtstart" title="YYDDMM">[date]</th>
>
>                 <td class="description"> [3]
>                         <a class="url" href="[URL]">Blah blah</a>
>                 </td>
>         </tr>
>
> with multiple table rows.
>
>
> [1] or class="feed", or whatever; if not <body>, could be a <div>
>
> [2] or "entry" ?
>
> [3] or "entry-content" ?
> --
> Andy Mabbett
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