[uf-new] Is including profiles a must?

Tue Jun 26 09:57:15 PDT 2012

Thanks Tantek.

Frankly speaking, the current approach to reference microformats.org
vocabularies is a bit inconvenient for user because it involves adding
new attribute to the <head> element or adding extra elements (<link>
or <a>). So maybe you could make it like how microdata does it (ex:
<section itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Person">).

Regards,
Ian

2012/6/27 Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu>
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Ian Yang <ian.html at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > On the profile section ( http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Profile )
> > of the hCard page, it says content that uses hCard should reference
> > the profile by using:
>
> Note the "should" in that text.
>
>
> > <link rel="profile" href="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard">
> > or
> > This content uses <a rel="profile"
> > href="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard">hCard</a>.
> > or
> > <head profile="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard">
> >
> > Could you please explain the reason that including profiles is a must
> > for using micorformats? Thank you very much.
>
> It's not a must, it's a should (as quoted), per RFC2119.
>
> In practice, most uses of hCard omit a profile reference.
>
> In the future we may figure out how to make microformats.org
> vocabularies automatically referenceable rather than using explicit
> profile references.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tantek
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