Hello, <div>On 12/4/05, Mr Michael Wiechers <<a href="mailto:whoisstan@yahoo.com">whoisstan@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>Hey, I created a little description: <a href="http://www.merkwelt.com/people/stan/marioKartDSMicroformat.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.merkwelt.com/people/stan/marioKartDSMicroformat.html </a> So I guess I can write a little greasemonkey script that pop's up a message when it finds a marioKartDS-ID element, probably showing the hCard properties as well. Maybe linking to the player-stats if they are available from nintendo. Does that make sense?</div></blockquote><div> Yeah, sounds good. However, let me make one suggestions.  Although I don't think it is a rule, people tend to choose lowercase names for class names.  For example, people use "vcard" and not "vCard".  So perhaps you may want to use "mariokartds-id" or "mario-kart-ds-id" or something like that (instead of "marioKartDS-ID"), See ya  </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div> Thanks, Stan Charles Iliya Krempeaux < <a href="mailto:supercanadian@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">supercanadian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hello, On 12/3/05, Mr Michael Wiechers wrote: > Hey! > > I like microformats. I had a microformat idea and wanted to run that by you > to see if that this makes sense. I play Mario Kart on my Nintendo DS a lot, > it allows you to play online with your friends. A friend is added to the > system by entering a code, every person has a code. > > Right now I just have the code on my personal website: > <a href="http://www.merkwelt.com/people/stan/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.merkwelt.com/people/stan/</a> (first thing under > whoisstan) > > So I was thinking of replacing: > <li> <img>390901938389</li> > > with > > <li><img> > class="marioKartDS">390901938389</li><div> > > Does that make sense, so I stumble over a personal website with that code I > could have a bunch of games with that person. What I'm not clear on is how > an application/robot could make sense of that? Well, an application or robot could scan the page for tags/elements that have the class "marioKartDS". When it does, it then checks to see if that element has a "title" attribute... if it does, it uses that... if not, it uses the innerHTML. Make sense?! Here's some JavaScript pseudo code: var elements = document.getElementsByClassName("marioKartDS"); if ( elements && elements.length ) { // We found some marioKartDS Microformats! for (var i=elements.length-1 ; i>-1; i--) { var code = elements[i].getAttribute("title"); if ( ! code ) { code = elements[i].innerHTML; } // #### TODO #### Do something with the code you found. (Let's play :-) ) } } Does that help? > Say I would be using the > geocode microformat as well and the "cuisine" microformat I would be able to > find people that like vietnamese cuisine, live in new york and have a mario > kart DS. Which kind of application do the aggregation and would allow me to > run a query like that? There may not be one that exists yet. You could write your own (if you are a software engineer). You could make a webcrawler. Or you could make a user script (using greasemonkey). Etc. Also, various people on this lists are probably working on stuff like this. (So it may be just a matter of waiting a little while.) 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