[uf-new] Is including profiles a must?

Wed Jun 27 00:19:40 PDT 2012

Hi Tantek,

Yes, that idea is nice as it lets users add references directly to
elements which they use microformats on and don't have to modify the
<head> region. Hope that idea can be normalized as earlier as possible
so we can start using it.

Regards,
Ian

2012/6/27 Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu>:
> This is reasonable feedback and mirrors reasons behind the in-progress
> HTML5 "profile" attribute proposal:
>
> http://microformats.org/wiki/html5-profile
>
> Which with you could for example say:
>
> <section class="vcard" profile="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard">
>
> If that's useful to you (to be able to explicitly state the
> profile/vocabulary you're using), then that helps provide incentive to
> continue iterating on html5-profile draft - please take a look at it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tantek
>
>> 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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