[uf-discuss] Microformats in Form Fields

[Drew McLellan]

On 28/9/2006, "Ben Ward" <lists at ben-ward.co.uk> wrote:

>Hello list, just a quick point for discussion:
>
>Lets say you have a personal registration form in your web app, for  
>entering contact data which will later be output as an hCard in  
>various places.
>
>What if I was to mark up the form (and fields) with hCard classes?  
>Good idea? Bad idea? I strikes me that it could be useful for auto- 
>complete applications, but not sure if it would ‘pollute’ the web  
>with effectively a useless/empty hCard when the form is published.

There's various related bits of discussion on this in and around these
pages:
http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/

:)

drew.