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

Thu Sep 21 15:45:52 PDT 2006

In particular, see [1]

Regards, etc...

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom#Entry_Author

On 9/21/06, David Janes <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> wrote:
> 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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