[uf-new] figure microformat

Andy Mabbett andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Sun Feb 24 01:18:33 PST 2008


In message <1203806745.4542.31.camel at weborganicscouk>, Martin McEvoy 
<info at weborganics.co.uk> writes

>On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 21:36 +0000, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>> In message <1203799926.3716.37.camel at weborganicscouk>, Martin McEvoy
>> <info at weborganics.co.uk> writes
>>
>> ><div class="figure">
>> >  <img class="photo" src="photo.jpeg" alt="Albert Einstein"/>
>> >    <a rel="tag" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography">Photo</a>
>> >    of <cite>Albert Einstein</cite> by
>> >    <span class="contributor vcard">
>> >       <span class="fn">Paul Ehrenfest</span>
>> >       (<span class="role">photographer</span>)
>> >    </span>
>> ></div>
>>
>> Doesn't Albert deserve his own vcard, too?
>
>Do you think? is that not a bit much?

Yes; and no; respectively. hCards are for "people places and venues". I 
would warp all such data in an hCard (at least on the first occurrence 
on the page).

>would you wrap a vcard around this?
>
>"Colored drinking fountain"
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ColoredDrinking.jpg

No, because that's not a (named) person, place of venue.

[...]

>> Albert Einstein is not being cited, in the above example. If anyone is,
>> it's Ehrenfest.
>
>No its the contents that is the subject of a cite.

I don't follow what you mean, here.

-- 
Andy Mabbett


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