#microformats 2012-01-12

2012-01-12 UTC
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Hixie yes
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tantek in microformats, the wiki is canonical, and mailing list is just fyi
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tantek Hixie, regardless, I'll take your advice and reply with suggested improvements on the whatwg list
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Hixie cool
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Hixie having spoken to them, i can assure you that they are very open to suggestions
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tantek we'll see how malleable the proposal is
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tantek that's good to hear
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tantek I'll try to assume as much
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Hixie at least in this instance, they really did ship it as an experiment to see how it did, not to force a status quo
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Hixie they just want to make autocomplete actually work for users
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Hixie i wish i had more faith that that was an achievable goal
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Hixie hopefully they and you will prove me wrong :-)
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tantek I won't make any appraisals of chance of success
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tantek or achievability as you put it
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mkowens I would guess that making autocomplete actually work for users will require some form of content analysis on labels near and around inputs, not better form standards, even though better form standards will help.
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tantek mkowens, precisely. IE4.5/Mac (which was AFAIK the first browser to implement autofill like is proposed) did that - content analysis on labels near and around inputs, their name attribute(s) etc.
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tantek of course that was 13 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac#Internet_Explorer_4.0_for_Macintosh
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tantek "… on January 9, 1999, Microsoft announced the release of Internet Explorer 4.5 Macintosh Edition.[5] This new version, which dropped 68K processor support, introduced Form AutoFill, Print Preview, … "
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mkowens Interesting. I never actually used IEMac, so I would be curious to know how well it performed.
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bryckbost Any ideas if there is anyone putting effort into http://microformats.org/wiki/project or if there is a different format to encapsulate open-source projects & libraries?
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tantek hi bryckbost. do you have a specific example of an HTML page of yours describing an open-source project that you'd like to add markup to?
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bryckbost tantek: yes, https://gemnasium.com/.
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bryckbost the data we parse for it really comes from RubyGems.org, for example: https://rubygems.org/gems/delayed_job
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bryckbost the Ruby world has a pretty well defined specification for libraries, but could be extrapolated and generalized to describe projects on github, google code and jQuery plugins.
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tantek very cool
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tantek bryckbost - there might even be enough difference between an open source project/library and the normal project management notion of a project for the oss variety to deserve its own vocabulary
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tantek but the best thing is to start with documenting your example
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tantek could you add an entry for gemnasium.com to http://microformats.org/wiki/project-examples ?
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tantek thanks!
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