[Microid] MicroID Specification
Mrinal Kant
mrinal.kant at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 13:41:57 EDT 2007
Hi everybody,
I got introduced to microid format only recently. And it is brilliant in its
simplicity and ability to do what it claims to do.
However, as I went through the specs, I felt that it would be a little
cumbersome for a user to add all those meta tags if the user maintains a
large number of pages, blogs, websites, etc. Especially, if the user intends
to change his/her email id, it would require editing all those pages again.
I suggest that in future version of this specs, we could have something like
the following: This line would tell the consumer to go look at the page
mentioned in the href attribute.
<meta name='microid' href='
http://someSite.thatBelongsToMe.com/somePageForMicroID.html'/
<http://someSite.thatBelongsToMe.com/somePageForMicroID.html%27/>>
This line would tell the consumer to go look at the page mentioned in
the href attribute.
Similarly, to mark some limited content within a page, one could have
<div class='microid.href:http://someSite.thatBelongsToMe.com/somePageForMicroID.html'/
>
Now, we could have entries in somePageForMicroID.html which could contain
the hash values for various sites in whatever way. Any change would require
updating only this file. Even the microid version could be stated in this
file thus not requiring any changes to be made in all the claimed
pages/blogs/sites/etc. This would help maintain backward compatibility while
allowing to add the hash as per the latest version without making any
changes in the claimed resources. Thus, the user could keep adding hashes
based on various algos and email,etc. without going through the trouble of
editing a variety of pages and templates. It would be easier to play around
with one simple page rather than to meddle with the multiple and complex
templates on blogs, etc.
Of course, one could have a utility to generate such a page from user inputs
to make it more user-friendly.
The file somePageForMicroID.html mentioned in the href attribute could be an
xml for easy extensibility instead of html. This page could keep hashes for
various versions, algos, and identities (emails, etc.) simultaneously making
it easier to upgrade the specs when needed.
Regards,
Mrinal
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