#microformats 2017-08-01

2017-08-01 UTC
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Loqi
[kevinmarks] #14 The p- prefix for padding clashes with microformats properties
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aaronpk
Need an FAQ page on the wiki about why microformats doesn't use data attributes
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[kevinmarks]
I thought we had that, let me look
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Loqi
Microformats FAQ
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[kevinmarks]
though html5 is not a draft any more
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[kevinmarks]
hm looks like I can't edit the FAQ
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[kevinmarks]
tantek, did you lock it?
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tantek
edited /Special:Log/protect () "unprotected "[[faq]]""
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Loqi
[kevinmarks] Data attributes are explicitly specified to only be for the site itself, not for [external reuse](https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html#embedding-custom-non-visible-data-with-the-data-*-attributes): > Custom data attributes are intended to store cu...
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[kevinmarks]
Should I just remove the 'draft' point?
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aaronpk
and probably fix the link so we don't see the <a> tag
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kevin marks
edited /faq (+250) "/* Q. Why don't microformats use the HTML5 data- attributes to embed data? */ update refs; typo"
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aaronpk
hm i should write a blog post about how i'm using microformats to author this book and automatically generate the table of contents
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[tantek]
Definitely!
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[kevinmarks]
shoelace looks like a nice piece of work - I haven't read the CSS they're using, but the markup choices described seem reasonable, and the use of variables is neat.
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aaronpk
i'm pretty excited for css variables
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aaronpk
a way long time ago i used to generate my css files with PHP so I could do things like color variables and calc() stuff
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[kevinmarks]
nice: "I'd hate for lots of people to adopt Shoelace and then run into Bootstrap Syndrome (every website looks the same)." https://github.com/claviska/shoelace-css/issues/3
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Loqi
[claviska] #3 Themes & Components
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[kevinmarks]
Yay, he changed it.
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