[microformats-discuss] microformat for messaging/chat

Thu Sep 15 13:59:33 PDT 2005

You might want to look at Tantek's presentation, where he talks about 
marking up conversations:
http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/03/elementsofxhtml/#slide17
-ryan
On Sep 15, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Greg Elin wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
>> I've made pitch to Kevin Marks that messaging/chat deserves a 
> microformat because IRC, Chat, etc, are very much a part of 
> Internet-based communication, especially among developers. IM is 
> definitely mainstream, and IRC back channels are pretty common at 
> events and on conference calls. I think we've all seen a block of 
> chat pasted into a wiki.
>> As many of you know, I've done some development of Manuel 
> Kiesslings, ARSC Chat, which is a web-based chat client. In working 
> with it recently I took a stab at outlining classes for style sheet 
> and a microformat. kevin recommended I send it to the list to 
> being discussion. Here they are:
>> msg_room
> msg_room_url
> msg_eventcode
> msg_generator
> msg_entry
> msg_who
> msg_date
> msg_datetime
> msg_message
> msg_status
> msg_viewstatus
> msg_tags
> msg_id
> msg_count
> msg_thread_id
> msg_thread_name
> msg_reply_parent
> msg_reply_top
> msg_permalink
>>> After I did that, I discovered that ARSC has specific templates 
> depending on the purpose of the message, differentiating between a 
> System Message and Moderator Message, for example. (It's very nice 
> to see System Messages in a different color. So here are those 
> categories:
>> System Message
> Moderator (or Operator)
> End-User (HTML)
> Me (behaivor message, like "/me smiles")
> Speaker (added for chat at live events)
> Note (similar to speaker, but maybe behavior about something 
> that happens)
> Bot (should it be separate?)
>> Now within each of THESE groups, there are might still be some 
> things to consider, like:
>> whispered message
>> If you are curious for more information, I've posted an excerpt 
> from a recently used style sheet for chat:
> http://gregelin.com/archives/index.php/5
>>> Greg Elin
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