representative-hcard-issues

Representative hCard Issues

These are externally raised issues about representative hCards with broadly varying degrees of merit. Thus some issues are rejected for a number of obvious reasons (but still documented here in case they are re-raised), and others contain longer discussions. Some issues may be accepted and perhaps cause changes or improved explanations in the spec.

Submitted issues may (and probably will) be edited and rewritten for better terseness, clarity, calmness, rationality, and as neutral a point of view as possible.

open issues

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resolved issues

• 2008-02-02 raised by Andy Mabbett

• 1. Some CMSs (including vanilla MediaWiki) allow neither the use of rel or class on links.
     • Possible solution - allow class="representative vcard" or similar. Andy Mabbett 15:54, 2 Feb 2008 (PST)
     • ACCEPTED FAQ. Update MediaWiki install with a version that allows the use of rel or class on links or use one of the MediaWiki plugins that does so.

closed issues

• 2008-02-02 raised by Andy Mabbett

• 1. There are accessibility and usability issues with linking a page to itself (to be expanded). Note prior discussion at hcard-issues-resolved#resolved_2006 dated 2006-10-21
     • Possible solution - allow class="representative vcard" or similar. Andy Mabbett 15:44, 2 Feb 2008 (PST)
     • REJECTED THEORETICAL AND MISCONCEPTION same as resolution to the hCard issue.

• 2008-02-02 raised by Andy Mabbett

• 1. hCards will not always include a URL (to be expanded)
     • Possible solution - allow class="representative vcard" or similar. Andy Mabbett 15:44, 2 Feb 2008 (PST)
     • REJECTED THEORETICAL. Links to a real world example of an hCard without a URL are required to devise an appropriate solution, otherwise solutions may be (overly) addressing a theoretical problem.

• 2008-02-02 raised by Andy Mabbett

• 1. Not all representative hCards are about people; some are about organisations or venues, so cannot use rel="me" (see, for example that for the BBFO, one of several on http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/bardsey
     • Possible solution - allow class="representative vcard" or similar. Andy Mabbett 16:03, 2 Feb 2008 (PST)
     • REJECTED UNNECESSARY. The url=uid=source option works for representing hCards about organizations and venues.

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Related pages

• representative-hcard
• representative-hcard-authoring
• representative-hcard-parsing
• representative-hcard-examples
• representative-hcard-formats
• representative-hcard-brainstorming
• representative-hcard-issues
• hcard
• hcard-authoring
• xfn
• rel-me