[uf-discuss] hAtom handheld CSS..?

Chris Messina chris.messina at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 13:15:28 PST 2006


Perhaps Danny can shed some light on his proposal?

On 3/27/06, Chris Casciano <chris at placenamehere.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 27, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
>
> > On 3/27/06, Chris Casciano <chris at placenamehere.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I guess I'm not clear where microformats (including hAtom or not)
> >> would
> >> serve to solve the handheld 'problem'.
> >
> > I'm not clear either, except that, like CSS Zen Garden, having one set
> > of CSS classes to design for means that I could concoct one stylesheet
> > that could be used as the handheld stylesheet for thousands of blogs
> > instead of just one blog that chooses its own CSS classes.
> >
> > In that way, we could actually iterate on design knowing that there's
> > some consistency in CSS classes.
> >
> > Chris
>
> But what about everything else on the page -- from navigation to
> branding to any non-atom-like content? Or pages with multiple hatom
> feeds? Or the wide variety of "stuff" that could be entry content --
> from images, photos or screenshots to lengthy articles -- that would
> presumably go un-specified in an hatom-garden type setting.
>
> I guess I don't see how the others participating think the pages would
> be consumed, and the win I see from hAtom (the ability to subscribe to
> elements on any page of a site without shipping mulutple versions of a
> document) isn't at all related to the handheld space.
>
> --
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