[uf-discuss] Custom Fields Microformat?

Manuel Simoni msimoni at gmail.com
Sat Nov 25 08:33:05 PST 2006


On 11/26/06, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/25/06, Manuel Simoni <msimoni at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For example, XOXO would force implementors to adapt a list structure,
> > which probably is too rigid for them. The hcustomfield-* classes let
> > implementors use any layout they desire, and my examples show that the
> > use of these three simple classes is enough to unify two major existing
> > implementations (Wordpress and Drupal).
>
> Though the problem with the custom property-value approach is that
> properties then must be visible. It also seems to go against the
> current of current practice (where properties are encoded as
> meaningful class names).

I don't think so... the field names could always be hidden with CSS, right?

<div class="hcustomfield">
  <span class="hcustomfield-name HIDDEN">Priority</span>
  <span class="hcustomfield-value">low</span>
</div>


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