Hello Anthony,<br><br>Sorry for the really late reply. (Been really busy. But anways....)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">anthony l. bryan</b> <<a href="mailto:albryan@comcast.net">
albryan@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thanks again for the reply.<br><br>I had read your example before, I think I'm on the same page, I just thought
<br>you meant something like CSS that I understand in general but not<br>specifically. But I get that we're marking what information is what and want<br>it human readable...I just wasn't thinking it through enough when I made my
<br>first post.<br><br>I added your example to <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hash-examples">http://microformats.org/wiki/hash-examples</a> . Is that<br>ok? Do I need to cite you? I did in the history but not on the actual page,
<br>since it doesn't seem like other pages do.<br><br>Do you think a microformat for this is worth pursuing? Are you interested in<br>working on it? It seems super simple, like its almost done.</blockquote><div><br>In fact, I do think it is worth pursuing. And can be useful in alot of other situations (beyond just this one).
<br><br>For example, with RSS and Atom feeds, we have something called an "enclosure". With an "enclosure" you are being told that this file (that the enclosure points to) is "attached" to this item. (And that you might want to go and download it.)
<br><br>Now, having checksum information (like a MD5 checksum) could be very useful for this. Especially in the context of hAtom -- the Microformat variation of Atom. And the rel-enclosure Microformat.<br> </div>So, if we combined the two -- combined this semantic HTML for "downloading" and rel-enclosure -- then we might get something like this:
<br><br> <span <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">class</span>="<span id="st" name="st" class="st0">download</span>"><br> <a rel="bookmark enclosure" href="..."><span id="st" name="st" class="st0">
Download</span> OOo</a><br> <span <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">class</span>="checksum md5">e0d123e5f316bef78bfdf5a008837577</span><br><div id="mb_1"> </span></div><br>And this becomes even more powerfull.
<br><br>Note that I've added "enclosure" to the "rel" attribute of the <a> element. This could be used in other Microformats and semantic HTML too.<br></div><br><br>See ya<br clear="all"><br>--
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