RE: Microformats and Firefox 3

> And I'm with Tony (and others) on the protocol
approach. 

I should, however, add that I do have one concern about the
protocol
approach; it does not degrade gracefully. Users of FF2, or
IE7 or Safari
etc will just get a big old unknown protocol error.

This is easily countered by the designer checking for the
navigator with
js or using <!--[if IE]> and hiding the protocol
actions element, but
this of course requires extra work on their part.

T.

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Farndon, Tony wrote:
>> And I'm with Tony (and others) on the protocol
approach. 
>>     
> I should, however, add that I do have one concern about
the protocol
> approach; it does not degrade gracefully. Users of FF2,
or IE7 or Safari
> etc will just get a big old unknown protocol error.
>
> This is easily countered by the designer checking for
the navigator with
> js or using <!--[if IE]> and hiding the protocol
actions element, but
> this of course requires extra work on their part.
>
> T.
That issue could perhaps be solved by either browser
extensions or 
separate programs with similar roles as feed readers has for
RSS.
It would perhaps not be too mad of an idea to have
Thunderbird or 
something taking care of the microformats for such browsers
since 
Thunderbird and such programs have greater use of the data
contained in 
the microformats. Like the hCard into Thunderbirds
addressbook and the 
hCalendars into the Lightning extension.

Alex Faaborg wrote a clever mail about this earlier and
presented a few 
issues and a few possibilites related to protocols. It was
then 
discussed that perhaps there should be one protocl for each
microformat? 
That would if so enable different programs to easily take
care of 
different microformats.

You'll find Faaborg's mail here (is this the usual way to
share an older 
mail on a mailing list or how is more common?):
http://microformats.org/discuss
/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-August/010536.html

/ Pelle W

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