hcard-implied-brainstorming

2008-12-16T18:16:48Z

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<h1>Implied hCard Brainstorming</h1>

These are ideas for solutions to [[hcard-implied|implied-hcards]]. See [[hcard-implied-examples]] for use cases.

== Initial ideas ==

The rule could be similar to:

If a an element with class=vcard does not have any hCard class names, imply the entire content as an fn field, and attempt to apply the implied "n" optimization.

Optionally, if the root element has @href, imply a class="url".

For example:

<pre><nowiki>
<a class="vcard" href="http://ryancannon.com/">Ryan Cannon</a>
</nowiki></pre>

becomes

<pre><nowiki>
BEGIN:VCARD
N:Cannon;Ryan;;;
FN:Ryan Cannon
URL:http\://ryancannon.com/
END:VCARD
</nowiki></pre>

All this is possible because it requires an hCard without hCard markup inside.

This is fairly powerful for a few reasons:

* It does not require in-depth knowledge of hCard or vCard
* Extraordinarily simple markup
* Provides a smaller barrier-to-entry for microformats that require hCard

Additionally, the @href could map to different properties based on protocol:

* <nowiki>[href^='http']</nowiki> would map to <code>url</code>
* <nowiki>[href^='mailto']</nowiki> would map to <code>email</code>
* <nowiki>[href^='data']</nowiki> would map to <code>photo</code>

--[[User:RCanine|Ryan Cannon]]

==Links to vCards==

Parsers should ignore any links to the .vcf file extension:

<pre><nowiki>
<a class="vcard" href="http://example.com/example.vcf">Download my vcard</a>
</nowiki></pre>

since users, unaware of hCard, may apply class="vcard" to such links.

[[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:33, 8 Dec 2006 (PST)

==See also==
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2008-January/011199.html Mailing list discussion: January 2008]

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