blog-info-brainstorming
Blog Info Brainstorming
This page documents thoughts toward establishing a new microformat to use when discussing, linking to, referring to blogs beyond just linking to them using a person or organization's name.
Contributors
Simple Schema
From the blog-info-examples and the existing blog-info-formats, it seems clear that a simple schema must have:
- name of the blog
- link to the blog
- zero or more links to feeds for the blog
- type of that feed
- name of person associated with the blog (e.g. author / contributor)
Class Names
- root class name for an item - (hBlog? hInfo? hItem?).
- "fn" for name of blog
- simple href link to the blog
- "alternate"? typed href alternate links
- "author" for stating who is blogging that blog. hCard is quite useful / flexible.
XHTML Structure
Definition List
When used in conjunction with XOXO, this could be a very useful way of outputting lists of favorites.
<ul>
<li class="hblog">
<dl>
<dt class="fn url"><a href="[link]">[Title]</a></dt>
<dd class="author">[author hCard]</dd>
<dd class="description">[Description]</dd>
<dd class="alternate url"><a href="[feedlink]" class="feed">[Title]</a></dd>
<dd class="alternate url"><a href="[homepagelink]" class="homepage">[Title]</a></dd>
</dl>
</li>
<li class="hblog">[etc]</li>
</ul>
That isn't XOXO at all. XOXO has key value pairs with visible keys in <dt> and values in <dd>. If you don't want human readable key names, don't use <dl>
Non -XOXO :
<div class="hblog">
<a href="[link]" class="fn url">[Title]</a>
<span class="author">[author hCard]</span>
<span class="description">[Description]</span>
<span class="alternate url"><a href="[feedlink]" rel="feed alternate">[Title]</a></span>
<span class="alternate url"><a href="[homepagelink]" rel="home">[Title]</a></span>
</div>
XOXO:
<dl class="hblog">
<a href="[link]" class="fn url">[Title]</a>
<dt>Author</dt><dd class="author">[author hCard]</dd>
<dt> Description</dt><dd class="description">[Description]</dd>
<dt>feed</dt><dd class="alternate url"><a href="[feedlink]" rel="feed alternate">[Title]</a></dd>
<dt>homepage</dt><dd class="alternate url"><a href="[homepagelink]" class="home alternate url">[Title]</a></dd>
</dl>
Tags
The blog-info-examples have yet to show any sign of common use of tags in blog-info chunks.
Thus the following markup was removed from the above three code examples:
<dd>Tags: <a href="[tagspace/tag]" rel="tag">[tag]</a>, <a href="[tagspace/tag]" rel="tag">[tag]</a></dd>
<span>Tags: <a href="[tagspace/tag]" rel="tag">[tag]</a>, <a href="[tagspace/tag]" rel="tag">[tag]</a></span>
<dt>Tags</dt><dd><a href="[tagspace/tag]" rel="tag">[tag]</a>, <a href="[tagspace/tag]" rel="tag">[tag]</a></dd>
In addition, for lists of URLs that are tagged, presumably one would simply reuse xFolk - which is a very different usage than that being explored by blog-info.