[Microid] MicroID.org and Microformats.org

Yaniv Golan yaniv at yedda.com
Tue Nov 28 12:24:30 EST 2006


Why not go with the uF spirit, and mandate that this information
should be inserted by the controlling party in a human readable
format:

<a href="anything-here" rel="me" class="microid
microid:sh1:hash-number">any text here - e.g. "My ID"</a>

I am not very comfortable myself with the uF philosophy - I don't
really see human-readability as a must-have in most cases, and I find
that it actually forces some strange user interface compromises. The
transparency goal can be achieved in other ways (browser awareness for
one). 

But since uF has a good momentum, and it's a good (set of) spec(s), I
feel that it'd be best to align with it instead of missing the
opportunity to get wide adoption for MicroIDs, which are a brilliant
idea IMO :)

Yaniv

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Yaniv Golan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: microid-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:microid-
> bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Evan Prodromou
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 6:59 PM
> To: microid at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [Microid] MicroID.org and Microformats.org
> 
> 
> If I had to summarize it, I'd say that a MicroID was an assertion by
> the
> party in control of that section of the page (either the <head> or a
> smaller element) that the agent identified by the first URL has a
> relationship with the resource identified by the second URL. That
> relationship could be any of:
> 
>       * Resource describes Agent
>       * Agent is creator of Resource
>       * Resource is an identifier for Agent
> 
> Anyways, all very interesting.
> 
> -Evan
> 
> --
> Evan Prodromou <evan at prodromou.name>



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