The Definitive Location
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David, This is some excellent code for adding some microformats to @WordPress. Thanks @dshanske!
For those with less technical expertise, could I pose a few questions which you may or may not cover in part 2?
If I recall, there’s microformats version 1 and a more recent, updated microformats2. Most of what you’re adding here is the mf2 spec and not backwards compatible mf1 mark up, right?
When you say that a theme shouldn’t “style” hfeed or hentry, you mean that the CSS shouldn’t include these classes as they’re used only for semantic mark up and not meant to be used for CSS at all?
If hfeed is already added into a theme, do you recommend removing it from the theme code directly with search and replace (particularly if it wasn’t added in the correct place) and then adding it with the snippet you provided, or is it best to leave it in the theme and remove it from the code? If we remove it from the code you provided, which line(s) should we omit? What happens if it is duplicated (ie, what will the output look like, or what happens to parsers that read the code)?
What exactly are the post, body and comment class functions? What do they look like and where would one find them in a particular theme?
How is the code you’ve provided different from what the WordPress plugin uf2 does? Is it more or less extensive?
In the end, this is also just a stop-gap measure to quickly add a small, but high level subset of microformats to current themes that don’t support it? Ideally we would hope more modern themes will add a more full version of microformats natively?
For most people, this is a simple way to add basic microformats structure that allows your site to be parsed by a microformats 2 parser. The second part will be covering some more complicated issues.
Unclear who will benefit from polemical decision.
This weekend, I have been helping an Android user I know switch over to iOS.
What a fucking mess. The tech industry really ought to feel collective shame for the horror movie that is trying to switch from one platform to another…
It isn’t as if iOS hasn’t had its share of scandals recently, including their recent app usage of restricted functions…functions Apple thought they could restrict by scanning for them in the code. But, either way…
The MTP issue isn’t a Samsung one. It was thought a security issue to allow direct access to the filesystem of the device by USB cable. The old solution was partitioning, but it meant a hard limit on app installs. So, MTP allows a single filesystem, but the media coming out securely and easily(well, not in your case). The MTP experience on a computer is definitely a problem though.
WhatsApp no making it easy to work with their data is a symptom of the bigger data portability problem. I really think your problem isn’t Android and iOS and the bad transfer experience. The issue is that few companies makes it easy to take data out of their siloed systems. Most people will give up on the effort.
The “original Oreo” is coming back very soon.
A few years ago, tech personality Leo Laporte referring to the Hydrox Cookie as an Oreo knockoff caused me to write off a letter regarding this.
I was not on debate, but I had several pleasant conversations as a student with Richard Sodikow, who founded the Bronx Science debate team. He passed away last year. It makes me rather sad that this is associated with such a respected program.
I’ve disagreed with members of the Indieweb community on many things….usually respectfully. I don’t understand Dave Winer’s venom on this matter. I very much respect what he’s done, and still use RSS regularly. But I really don’t like how he seems to be clinging to RSS. It seems to be, if you criticize RSS and think there is a different way, you are no friend of his.
In every community, there are hardliners. And certainly, many Indieweb people are very definitive in their views. But most recognize that you cannot just only support new standards and not have at least some support for older ones. You have to transition between the two.
In identifying the Feeds page of the Indieweb wiki as indicative of a philosophy, he is missing the point. The page identifies several trends. XML has been supplanted in many areas by other delivery methods…JSON, for example. Leaving aside HTML as a form of XML, the criticisms of traditional feeds are all legitimate ones.
So, in the end, the idea of embedding your feed markup inside your web page has some very real advantages. It means enhancing your site, rather than generating another copy of it in a different format. I appreciate that.
I also agree with Mr. Winer, if we “can get uptake for the formats they would like to replace RSS with, then everyone will support them. Until then, we use what works — for us.” Who is stopping you, sir?
If you think that you cannot adopt part of a group’s philosophy without having to buy into it all, then you would be wrong. We’re not working against you. We just disagree with you on one point. Let’s just agree to disagree and focus on moving forward the points we do agree on.
While certainly I became familiar with him, like most people, through Star Trek, I remember his work in Never Forget, his poetry, the controversy over his decision to publish his photography, and many other things…I’ve tried to forget the singing.
While, after declaring he was and was not Spock, he’d come to terms with how much his most iconic character resonated with people, and it was never for the obvious reasons. The last thing Nimoy posted on Twitter, 4 days ago, was, “A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP.”
In the end, all I can say is what Dr. McCoy said about Spock when he died(although on film, nothing is ever permanent). “He’s not really dead. As long as we remember him.”
The author of this piece suggests it is the greatest Jewish action movie of all time, and I’m not quite sure about that. But it has some great lines.
