hcard-brainstorming-rejected
<entry-title> hCard brainstorming Rejected Suggestions </entry-title> These are suggestions made as part of hCard brainstorming that have been rejected.
Suggestion: The use of class="url" on an <a> tag to represent an hCard URL property is redundant. By virtue of the <a> tag you know this is a URL.
Rejected. This is a bad suggestion because although it appears to reduce redunancy and keep things cleaner, it also creates a few problems. Without explicitly noting that this is a URL then any <a> tags within a 'vcard' would be considered a URL, for example:
<span class="vcard"> ... <ul class="categories"> <li><a href="http://w3c.org">W3C</a></li> </ul> ... </span>
There is no way to "turn-off" the encoding of the W3C URL, whereas if "url" needed to be explicitly listed in the class attribute list, then by NOT listing it you could effectively turn it off.