[uf-discuss] geo shorthand in anchor

Sarven Capadisli info at csarven.ca
Fri Jan 15 06:01:39 PST 2010


On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 07:10 -0800, Tantek Çelik wrote:
> One quick bit of feedback on this thread (which I'll also note on the
> wiki next to the examples added) - use of the title attribute for
> semicolon separated lat-long may not be the user-friendliest thing to
> do.
> 
> Given microformats experience with various uses of the the title
> attribute - a good rule of thumb is to check to make sure that the
> content you are putting into the title attribute is both reasonably
> human readable and listenable.

I've noted my observations on your observations
http://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=geo-brainstorming&diff=41657&oldid=41586

re: your notes in the Wiki, could you explain how

(<span class="geo">lat:<span class="latitude">45.5140800</span>; 
long <span class="longitude">-73.6111000</span></span>)

is more user friendly than

title="45.5140800;-73.6111000" ?


I see two things there:

1. changing the problem i.e., intended visible readable text content

2. "45.5140800" and "-73.6111000" as text values is no more human
readable and listenable than as "45.5140800;-73.6111000" title value.

-Sarven




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