hReview 0.1
I really like this idea of embedding review metadata in Web content, and I am not surprised to learn that Tantek Çelik1 is involved.
I don’t want to spoil the party here, but shouldn’t it be mentioned somewhere in which language the review is written in? Is it just a slip of the mind, or a very US-centric attitude, dude? I don’t think adding language info would be out of scope, as it would help filter out unwanted languages from search queries; plus, Ce n’est pas parce que mon blog est en anglais, 꼭 英語만 쓰는 것이 아니다… What if I wanted to post the same review in different languages, or quote something in another language..?
★★★★
Review by dda, May 15th
1I’m not exactly the kind of guy who’s a “fan” of other people, since I think that the Bruce Willis I “know” from movies could be, and probably is, very different from the real guy, and thus I could get very disappointed. But as far as real people go – inasmuch as you and I can learn about them in blogs and their achievements – there’re a few people that would qualify, and Tantek (disclaimer: whom I never met) is one of them.
dda,
Thank you for your very kind words. Especially your hReview of hReview. It was and is a collaborative effort among many reviews experts from many companies, and I’m only fortunate enough to work with some of the best. What you see is the result of all their expertise.
As far as you question/suggestion of a way to indicate the language that the review is written in, you are absolutely right. There needs to be such a mechanism. Fortunately, because microformats are built from semantic XHTML building blocks, language support is already built-in via the standard (X)HTML ‘lang’ attribute.
However, this detail is not made clear in the spec, and so therefore is something that we should point out explicitly in the next draft.
Thanks very much for your input.
Tantek
Hmmm, thanks for that Tantek. I somehow imagined that people would’ve thought about it, but why I forgot about the ‘lang’ attribute is beyond me… Silly wabbit!