hcard-input-interface
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<entry-title>hCard Input Interface and hCard sign-up UI</entry-title>
One of several projects at microformatsDevCamp.
summary
The goal here is to create a radically minimal signup process, utilizing hCards. Interface will use hCard information retrieved form a user’s “web-address” to populate fields needed for signup.
hCard Input Interface
- Build a nice clean UI for filling in an hCard's info
hCard sign-up UI
- How can we make it even easier to sign-up on a website using hCards?
- How can subscribing to hCards help users' profiles stay more up to date (e.g. their profile photo/icon/avatar) ?
participants
- Chad Weider
- Tantek Çelik
- Faruk Ateş
- Cindy Li
- Hillary Hartley
- Duncan
white board notes
cool.example.com
web address: |____________________|
(Sign up)
where people can enter anything web address like into the one field
We recommend using "web address" instead of "URL" per David Pogue's NYT article: Tech Terms to Avoid. And certainly avoid anything even more tech-jargony (like OpenID).
web address candidates
- http://tantek.com - full personal URL which has an hcard
- facebook.com/hillary - facebook, omit "http://"
- @perivision - twitter
- google.com/profile/hillary - google profile, omit http:
- dwerner@example.com - email address profile via gravatar
- ...
profile settings
Once a user has done the sign-up step and entered their web address
implementation steps
Back-end:
- Get target URL
- Fetch content
- Parse; generate hCard
- Return hCard
Front-end:
- Input target URL
- Goes to back-end
- Populates Form
- Nascar problem
- early wireframe (at flickr)