- From: <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:59:55 +0200 (MEST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> Postal addresses are quite common in HTML documents. Making them readily > parseable by user agents suggest many useful applications besides obvious > ones like passing addresses to a word processor or to a map-generating > service like MapQuest. For example, localized search engines could use > elements like <city> to find content connected to a particular region, > especially if it could be used outside of <address> blocks. - First, that sounds like a great chance to abuse this extra flagged information. (Mail) spammers and whoever will be happy about this opportunity. -- This disadvantage obviously outweighes all possible benefits for serious services. - <irony>Second, be consequent and add some <phone type="(home|business|mobile)" /> etc.pp. elements to ensure the next (possible) malpractice...</irony> I'm sorry, but privacy concerns are IMO too important to be abstracted away, although there exist enough methods to get personal, and although this topic cannot be a W3 task. Jens Meiert. -- Jens Meiert Steubenstr. 28 D-26123 Oldenburg Telefon +49 (0)441 99 86 147 Telefax +49 (0)89 1488 2325 91 Mobil +49 (0)175 78 4146 5 eMail <jens@meiert.com> Internet <http://meiert.com>
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