[uf-discuss] Help with proper method for incorporating/extendinghRecipe

[thomas lörtsch]

Hi Ted,

I sent him here ;-)

I have no expertise in extending microformats nor in POSH specifically, so I can't answer this question anyway.

Cheers
Thomas


Am 11.03.2010 um 23:23 schrieb Ted Drake:

> Hi Dave
> 
> The hrecipe microformat took a long time to develop and the
> implementation owes a lot to Thomas Loertsch
> (http://www.essen-und-trinken.de/) and the engineers at the Food Network
> http://foodnetwork.com (Jay Hung and Mark Wunsch). I'd suggest
> contacting them with your ideas. They may have gone through some of your
> concepts and can explain why they did or did not go in that direction. 
> 
> Ted DRAKE
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org
> [mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org] On Behalf Of Dave
> Corboy
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:37 PM
> To: microformats-discuss at microformats.org
> Subject: [uf-discuss] Help with proper method for
> incorporating/extendinghRecipe
> 
> I'm the development lead for a small company that has an interest in
> the establishment and adoption of a recipe-based microformat. Our
> research has led us to hRecipe and found it to be great, however we
> have need for a number of additional properties (which may -- or may
> not -- have broader applicability).
> 
> One option we have is simply to publish (for our web customers) our
> recommendation for semantic HTML markup, but we would also like to
> promote an interoperability with hRecipe.
> 
> While we are happy to bring our voice to the hRecipe microformat
> process, we do not want to do anything harmful by improperly extending
> hRecipe and thought to ask this community for advice on how to
> proceed.
> 
> Some options we have considered:
> - Create a POSH format completely distinct from hRecipe (this would
> not be compatible with hRecipe)
> - Add our own extensions to hRecipe (this would not respect the formal
> methodology of microformats)
> - Augment hRecipe with our POSH format property extensions and
> recommend <div class="hrecipe zl-recipe-x"> ... </div>
> 
> I am hoping that an approach similar to the latter is appropriate. I
> apologize for my inexperience in working with the microformat
> community and thank you all in advance for your feedback.
> 
> Best,
> Dave Corboy
> ZipList, Inc.
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