[uf-discuss] hidden microformats

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

HI Paolo,

In general "hidden" microformats are frowned upon, as they cause all  
sorts of problems.   Could you give an example of the types of  
"hidden" information you want/need to provide?

-- Ernie P.

On Sep 27, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Paolo Negri wrote:

> Hi there
>
> This is my first post here, sorry if I'm not posting in the right  
> place.
> I'm adding uformats support in my application and I have to say I'm
> quite intrigued but I'm facing with 3 problems
>
> 1) Sometime I have to change the code of my pages in places where I
> would prefer to have a more clean structure.
> 2) Sometime I would like to to the uformats on my pages information
> that I have in my application but that are not rendered in the current
> page, and adding/hiding these information in the original structure to
> complete the rendered information, make my page really dirty.
> 3) In some cases I would like to add a uformat containing informations
> that are not present at all on the page but that are deeply connected
> with the context of the page.
>
> Now, what I was thinking is to add in the footer of my pages a sort of
> container (let's say a div) with all  the microformats that I want to
> provide to my end user. Basicly this div will be not visible because
> of style setting , it will be just available for parsing purpouse.
>
> What I'm wondering is if this approach makes any sense since
> microformats are more oriented to give semantic/parsability to the
> visible content. I was thinking as an alternative to provide the
> possibility to download directly the vcard or whatever, but I still
> would preferer microformats since they sounds for me a bit more
> discoverable than a link to the vcard or to the final object.
>
> One last question that I have is about the screen reader for impaired
> user. Is there already a standard/proposal to signal that a section of
> the page is dedicated to microformats, or maybe I should just use
> something to avoid the processing of the container by the screen
> reader.
>
> That's all, thank you for the attention.
>
> Paolo
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