hcard-implied

2008-12-19T06:50:47Z

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<h1>Implied hCard</h1>

It is proposed to extend the hCard specification to include "Implied [[hcard|hCards]]", in order to streamline creation and mark-up for simple hCards by assuming information from common design patterns.

== Authors ==
* [http://ryancannon.com/ Ryan Cannon]
* [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

== Why? ==

As microformats grow and emerge, the barrier to entry for writing them increases. Already, compound microformats such as hAtom, hResume and hReview are comprised of data from hCard, hCal, and rel-tag, and writing to the former requires knowledge of the latter even if the constructs used are quite simple. In addition, adding microformats to a Web page often requires adding a significant amount of tags to code, which often have to be added (time-consumingly) by hand. For example, a simple name:

<pre><nowiki>
John Doe
</nowiki></pre>

can become:

<pre><nowiki>
<span class="vcard"><span class="fn">John Doe</span></span>
</nowiki></pre>

with 52 extra characters:

== Proposal ==

To find a way that the above transformation can be achieved (or "implied") with a single span and a single class. This ''might'' be:

<pre><nowiki>
<span class="vcard-fn">John Doe</span>
</nowiki></pre>

although other patterns are also being discussed.

== See also ==

* For more examples, see [[hcard-implied-examples]]
* For ideas refer to [[hcard-implied-brainstorming]]

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