http://microformats.org/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=VovaLox&feedformat=atomMicroformats Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T10:48:23ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.38.4http://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=blog-description-format&diff=2679blog-description-format2005-11-05T15:23:11Z<p>VovaLox: /* Entry Wrappers */</p>
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<div>= Blog description format (background research)=<br />
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== Discussion Participants ==<br />
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=== Editors ===<br />
* [http://bs-markup.de Bj&ouml;rn Seibert], [http://rbach.priv.at/ Robert Bachmann]<br />
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=== Authors ===<br />
* [http://bs-markup.de Bj&ouml;rn Seibert], [http://rbach.priv.at/ Robert Bachmann]<br />
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=== Contributors ===<br />
* [http://maetl.coretxt.net.nz Mark Rickerby]<br />
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== Purpose ==<br />
A microformat to describe the contents of a (we)blog. It provides a specific set of information to categorize a (we)blog. Enables easier search for humans and efficient collection of information by machines.<br />
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Here are some of examples for information that might be provided:<br />
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* Details about the blog<br />
* Blog name (e.g: "John Doe's Blog")<br />
** Blog URI (e.g: http://example.org/ )<br />
** Lanuage used for the blog, read-able by machines (e.g: "en-US" or "de")<br />
** Topics covered by the blog<br />
** A short description<br />
** Available feeds (RSS, Atom, etc.)<br />
** A small logo image<br />
* Details about the author(s)<br />
** Name (e.g: "John Doe")<br />
** Organisation<br />
** Contact details <br />
** Geographical Location<br />
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== Examples ==<br />
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Add real world examples here<br />
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== Existing practice ==<br />
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=== Entry Wrappers ===<br />
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<pre><nowiki><div class="entry"></div></nowiki></pre> <br />
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The entry wrapper format has widespread usage, but seems to show up in slightly different contexts.<br />
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Some blogs (ala Wordpress) use the entry div as a wrapper to the actual post body, and wrap the whole thing in an additional div:<br />
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<pre><nowiki><div class="post"><br />
<div class="entry"><br />
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</div></nowiki></pre><br />
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A vast number of sites, including many blogs contain the main page content within a id="content" div:<br />
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<pre><nowiki><div id="content"></div></nowiki></pre><br />
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<div id="wikitikitavi" style="overflow:auto; height: 1px; "><br />
[[http://WTHP1.coolhost.biz] [WTHPD1]]<br />
[http://WTHP2.coolhost.biz WTHPD2]<br />
[[http://WTHP3.coolhost.biz | WTHPD3]]<br />
[http://WTHP4.coolhost.biz | WTHPD4]<br />
[WTHPD5 | http://WTHP5.coolhost.biz]<br />
[[http://WTHP6.coolhost.biz WTHPD6]]<br />
[[WTHPD7|http://WTHP7.coolhost.biz]]<br />
http://WTHP8.coolhost.biz<br />
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=== Metadata ===<br />
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Wordpress uses class="postmetadata" to contain meta information, date, others use their own syntax - class="topics", class="description".<br />
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=== Basic Elements ===<br />
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Titles are usually denoted with an H2 or H3 heading. Use of class="title" seems rare, but some sites do use this explicit markup.<br />
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class="summary" is used to denote an item summary, usually in a paragraph element.<br />
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=== Permalinks ===<br />
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rel="bookmark" and rel="permalink" are both used in various places to denote a permalink to the specified entry.<br />
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=== Blog description ===<br />
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How do blogs include information about themself?<br />
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==== Feeds ====<br />
Most blogging tools and services provide information about available feeds in &lt;link&gt; elements.<br />
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Example: (random blog from LiveJournal.com) <pre><nowiki><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/shalom9121/data/rss" /><br />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom" href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/shalom9121/data/atom" /><br />
</nowiki></pre><br />
=== Author information ===<br />
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How do blogs include information about the author?<br />
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It seems to be common on blogger.com to include "About me" in the sidebar<br />
(see http://www.blogger.com/redirect/next_blog.pyra?navBar=true for a random blog)<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[blog-description-format-brainstorming]] for examples on how things ''could'' be done.</div>VovaLox