[microformats-discuss] microformat for messaging/chat

[Ryan King]

You might want to look at Tantek's presentation, where he talks about  
marking up conversations:

http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/03/elementsofxhtml/#slide17

-ryan

On Sep 15, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Greg Elin wrote:

> Greetings everyone,
>
> I've made pitch to Kevin Marks that messaging/chat deserves a  
> microformat because IRC, Chat, etc, are very much a part of  
> Internet-based communication, especially among developers. IM is  
> definitely mainstream, and IRC back channels are pretty common at  
> events and on conference calls.   I think we've all seen a block of  
> chat pasted into a wiki.
>
> As many of you know, I've done some development of Manuel  
> Kiesslings, ARSC Chat, which is a web-based chat client. In working  
> with it recently I took a stab at outlining classes for style sheet  
> and a microformat.  kevin recommended I send it to the list to  
> being discussion. Here they are:
>
>     msg_room
>     msg_room_url
>     msg_eventcode
>     msg_generator
>     msg_entry
>     msg_who
>     msg_date
>     msg_datetime
>     msg_message
>     msg_status
>     msg_viewstatus
>     msg_tags
>     msg_id
>     msg_count
>     msg_thread_id
>     msg_thread_name
>     msg_reply_parent
>     msg_reply_top
>     msg_permalink
>
>
> After I did that, I discovered that ARSC has specific templates  
> depending on the purpose of the message, differentiating between a  
> System Message and Moderator Message, for example. (It's very nice  
> to see System Messages in a different color. So here are those  
> categories:
>
>     System Message
>     Moderator (or Operator)
>     End-User (HTML)
>     Me (behaivor message, like "/me smiles")
>     Speaker (added for chat at live events)
>     Note (similar to speaker, but maybe behavior about something  
> that happens)
>     Bot (should it be separate?)
>
> Now within each of THESE groups, there are might still be some  
> things to consider, like:
>
>     whispered message
>
> If you are curious for more information, I've posted an excerpt  
> from a recently used style sheet for chat:
> http://gregelin.com/archives/index.php/5
>
>
> Greg Elin
>
>
>
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