[uf-discuss] Re: a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

[Chris Messina]

True -- but as we're in the proposal stage, it's not too bad...
however, we do need a tagcloud-brainstorming page on the wiki with all
of John's research.

;)

Chris

On 9/22/06, Frances Berriman <fberriman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nah - I meant this whole hTagCloud progression (examples off-site
> makes perfect sense).  It all seems off-site at the mo.
>
> And that's dedication, Chris. :)
>
> On 9/22/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Because I wrote this up when I was on a plane. ;)
> >
> > Does the mF wiki support inline CSS and all the tags we need?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On 9/22/06, Frances Berriman <fberriman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Just curious - but why aren't we using the uF wiki?
> > >
> > > On 9/22/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > For the sake of discussion, I started a page of demos (done offline,
> > > > so I might be wrong in some of my code) for various tagcloud
> > > > techniques...
> > > >
> > > > http://factorycity.net/demos/microformats/htagcloud/
> > > >
> > > > I'll go download John's original page so that I incorporate his examples.
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > > >
> > > > On 9/21/06, Stephen Paul Weber <singpolyma at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > you should be able to derive a
> > > > > > pie chart from the data embedded in this microformat! ;)
> > > > >
> > > > > That would be pretty cool ;)  But for that, how useful is it to
> > > > > actually store the data in the class attributes?  class is how uF
> > > > > finds data and names fields, but for data storage (especially numeric
> > > > > data like this) it seems odd... especially since you're then storing
> > > > > data invisibly to the user.  I think tagclouds need to use class for
> > > > > styling to work (as has been said, for IE), but the uF needs to store
> > > > > in title or inside a tag (as is pretty much uF 'tradition'), to make
> > > > > the data easier to access both for computers AND the user.
> > > > >    -- Singpolyma
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