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Posts Tagged ‘microformats’
How microformat developments are blocked
January 9, 2009The hCard microformat can distinguish between a person and an organisation, by the use of the org property:
<div class="vcard">
<span class="fn">Andy Mabbett</span>
</div>
<div class="vcard">
<span class="fn org">The Red Cross</span>
</div>
but it cannot distinguish between an organisation and a place:
<div class="vcard">
<span class="fn org">The Wembley Stadium fan club</span>
</div>
<div class="vcard">
<span class="fn org">Wembley Stadium</span>
</div>
treating them both as organisations.
On 31 December 2007, I described a way in which hCard microformat could be used to differentiate between hCards for places and organisations.
On 9 January 2008, having received favourable comment, I made a formal proposal to update the hCard specification.
Despite this ten-day gap, Brian Suda, one of the microformats “admins”, the cabal who control microformats, complained that he’d only had two days to consider the matter, and that “More time is needed to fully look over the implications of this change.”
No objections to the method, nor issues with it, have been raised.
Toby Inkster’s superb microformats parser Swignition (formerly called “Cognition”) has supported the method since version 0.1-alpha8, released in May 2008.
One year on from my formal proposal, what changes have been made to the hCard specification, in this regard? None.
hAccessibility: BBC drop hCalendar microformat
June 23, 2008Almost two years after I first raised the issue (to a reaction from the cabal that runs the microformats “community” which began with denial and moved to hostility) the BBC have stopped using the hCalendar microformat due to accessibility concerns.
Maybe now something can be done to incorporate one of the several, more accessible proposed work-arounds, into the relevant standards?
Thanks to Bruce Lawson and Patrick Lauke for breaking the news.
Update: Patrick now has a post on the subject, at webstandards.org
hAccessibility – Unhappy First Birthday
April 27, 2008It’s one year today since Bruce Lawson and James Craig published “hAccessibility“, about the misuse of the ‘abbr’ element in microformats (an issue I first raised on 20 September 2006 in Accessify Forums).
As recent events show, the microformats cabal still has its collective head up its own^W^W^W in the sand.
Despite suggestions for a workaround, a solution seems no nearer, thanks to their apparent indifference. Shame on them.