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<h1>Implied hCard</h1>
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It is proposed to extend the hCard specification to include Implied [[hcard|hCards]], in order to attempt to streamline creation and markup for simple hCards by assuming information from common design patterns.
It is proposed to extend the hCard specification to include "Implied [[hcard|hCards]]", in order to streamline creation and mark-up for simple hCards by assuming information from common design patterns.


== Authors ==
== Authors ==
* [http://ryancannon.com/ Ryan Cannon]
* [http://ryancannon.com/ Ryan Cannon]
* [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]


== Why? ==
== Why? ==
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<pre><nowiki>
<pre><nowiki>
<a href="http://www.example.com/">John Doe</a>
John Doe
</nowiki></pre>
</nowiki></pre>


quickly becomes:
can become:


<pre><nowiki>
<pre><nowiki>
<span class="vcard">
<span class="vcard"><span class="fn">John Doe</span></span>
<a class="url fn n" href="http://www.example.com/">
<span class="given-name">John</span>
<span class="family-name">
<span class="sort-string">D</span>oe
</span>
</a>
</span>
</nowiki></pre>
</nowiki></pre>


Which amounts to an almost 500% increase in code. For two words and a <abbr>URL</abbr>.  ('''Note: this reasoning has the classic strawman argument [[logical flaw]], where an example is deliberately excessively artificially constructed in order to support a point.  Please see [[hcard-examples]] for how to minimally create an hCard from a linked person's name. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 11:47, 4 Jan 2008 (PST))
with 52 extra characters:


* For more examples, see [[hcard-implied-examples]]
* For more examples, see [[hcard-implied-examples]]
* For ideas refer to [[hcard-implied-brainstorming]]
* For ideas refer to [[hcard-implied-brainstorming]]

Revision as of 12:09, 5 January 2008

Implied hCard

It is proposed to extend the hCard specification to include "Implied hCards", in order to streamline creation and mark-up for simple hCards by assuming information from common design patterns.

Authors

Why?

As microformats grow and emerge, the barrier to entry for writing them increases. Already, compound microformats such as hAtom, hResume and hReview are comprised of data from hCard, hCal, and rel-tag, and writing to the former requires knowledge of the latter even if the constructs used are quite simple. In addition, adding microformats to a Web page often requires adding a significant amount of tags to code, which often have to be added (time-consumingly) by hand. For example:

John Doe

can become:

<span class="vcard"><span class="fn">John Doe</span></span>

with 52 extra characters: