February 11, 2006
the iCite net - Nanoformats, now without a lot of explanation
It's great to see all of the work going into microformats. While it's good stuff, I honestly find microformats to embody a process way more formal than what excites me personally.
Jay is staking a claim to a modified version of the microformat concept. He wants to keep the idea of HTML-based data formats, but let go of the organizational and procedural ideas.
This seems to me like a constructive project -- let's explore everything about this space, not just the official parts.
One creative idea that Jay is bringing to the table is using HTML forms as a schema language to describe these new formats, which is a neat example of RESTful design. Sample code:
<form name="nanoformats" id="nanoformats" action="#">
<input type="hidden" name="schemacount" value="2" />
<input type="hidden" name="schema1" value="http://example.com/book-city" />
<input type="hidden" name="elements1" value="title,author,city,image,quote" />
<input type="hidden" name="attribute1-image" value="src" />
<input type="hidden" name="count1" value="2" />
<input type="hidden" name="schema2" value="http://example.com/webpage-author" />
<input type="hidden" name="elements2" value="author,url" />
<input type="hidden" name="attribute2-url" value="href" />
<input type="hidden" name="alias2-author" value="creator" />
<input type="hidden" name="count2" value="1" />
</form>
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