Comments on: Silly microformats question

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:36:50 +0000

cheers Ben. Looks like that would work fine. There’s a highly-practical article on the accessiblity of microformats coming next week. (Or, most likely next month, given my legendary slackness.)

By: Ben Ward

Ben Ward — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:52:17 +0000

As well as Andy’s use of ABBR to include the international format telephone number over the human-readible UK format, you could also do this:

[span class="tel"][span class="value"]+44[/span] (0) [span class="value"]1926 123456[/span][/span]

Those two ‘value’ spans will then be appended together to make a valid international format number, without the human-readable ‘(0)’ breaking it.

And of course, you don’t have to use SPANs and DIVs, if there’s a more appropriate structural element available.

By: bruce

bruce — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:25:00 +0000

There’s a Guinness as a prize, Andy! Ta.

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:45:06 +0000

Just been shown this one:

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/SVS/personnel/henrich/index.php

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:00:21 +0000

P.P.S. The International standard for telephone number display specifies that your “+44 (0)1926 123456″ should be “+44 1926 123456″.

Omit the markup on one of the phone numbers and mark up the other as, say:

01926 123456

(Your valid concerns about abbr/msg/voicemail not withstanding, of course.)

Two prizes?

Regards,

By: cole

cole — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:58:29 +0000

You could always ask Glen Jones at Web DD on Saturday