- From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:47:17 +0000
?ann fim 26.jan 2012 14:48, skrifa?i Matthew Wilcox: > What's wrong with using a class on the <article> to identify the author > stylistically? It's already identified semantically by having their name > in the <article> itself, right (presumably in a <footer> too)? As in <article class="asdf lolcats author-bjartur at spam.la>? Because then the class would contain content. That would depend on a stylesheet containing the identifier of every poster on every page. Generating such stylesheets from content already marked up in a page in a nonstandard fashion seems hackish at best, and harmful to usability at worst. The situation only gets worse when you consider the different stylistic needs of various media. I might want the whole <footer> rendered to the relatively large desktop screen of mine, but omit everything but authors' name or identity on my handheld screen. <Address>, for example, should be hidden behind a menu button and the authors name displayed tersely. The best solution I can think of is stating normatively that hCard <footer>s describe authors of the respected article or document. hCard does not, AFAIK, provide means to state URIs of authors, but indirect identification using email addresses should suffice. <!DOCTYPE html> <title>Example of Semantically Marking up Authors of Documents</title> <article> <h1>An Article Written by Bjartur</h1> <p>This article was written to demonstrate how authorship might be marked up. I sure hope it's valid!</p> <footer class="hcard"> <a class="fn email" href="mailto:bjartur at spam.la">Bjartur Thorlacius</a> </footer> </article>
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