[uf-discuss] What does the 'h' in microformats mean?

David Janes davidjanes at blogmatrix.com
Thu Jul 9 08:02:20 PDT 2009


Actually, the "h" in hAtom comes from the preferred way we
Irish-descended Newfoundlanders prefer to pronounce words beginning
with a vowel sound -- i.e. you should be saying it as two syllables,
not three ;-)

Regards, etc...

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Toby Inkster <mail at tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 09:15 +0100, Martin McEvoy wrote:
> > I wander if anyone can tell me what the 'h' in microformats means?
>
> hAtom, hCard, hCalendar, hReview etc are all named after the character
> Horatio "H" Caine from the popular police procedural television series
> "CSI: Miami".
>
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