issues

Issues which apply to more than one microforamt.

Bloated Format

• bloated format:
  • some of the markup is really bloated
  • instead of a number, we end sometimes with a whole new paragraph of markup
  • however, in order to be complete, the markup might need to be so
  • nevertheless, having a page with 1000 data points will be a horror scenario
  • I propose to open a new brainstorming session/page on how to efficiently implement the microformats in web pages, e.g.:
    • define the classes in the page header
    • define abbreviations to those classes
    • use actually only the abbrevioations inside the web page, instead of the whole paragraph of markup
  • another interseting implementation idea would be:
    • define the microformat classes inside a separate file (similarly to the css)
    • this file needs NOT to be downloaded automatically
      • you do NOT need it for displaying the data
      • it is only needed when wanting to import the data somewhere
      • most viewers, however, only view the data
    • let the browser automatically download this file, only IF:
      • there is enough bandwidth
      • the user wants to copy that data
      • the user wants to explicitly save the whole page
    • when the user wants to copy an item
      • the web browser should acces that microformats additional page and
      • download only the relevant class (NO need to actually download the whole page)
      • EXTEND html protocol to be able to download web-file/class-defined-inside-file without beeing necessary to download the whole file
  • discussion opened by Leonard Mada