Web Semantics of a Blog Comment
Yes we are that nerdy
So, whenever I meet up with good friend of mine, Scott Schiller from Flickr, we often talk about geeky things such as Web Semantics and the "proper" way to mark up different things. I know there are a few of you out there who enjoy this topic so here is my question to you.
What do you think is the "proper" way to markup a blog comment in this image?
What do you think is the "proper" way to markup a blog comment in this image?
marquee. That would make it seem like the person is actually speaking.
For real, I like it the way it is.
Left by Dave at SC | Aug. 12, 2008 at 4:51pm
Truly wish blink wasn't deprecated. Sigh...
I'd probably wrap a div around the comment itself then use an h5 or something heading like but not as important for the credit line. For the name inside that, my good old friend the "b" tag. I hate using "strong" for anything. 6 letters versus one? No thank you.
Left by Kevin at SC | Aug. 12, 2008 at 4:58pm
I'd probably just use a div with class="comment" which would contain the comment, the top border, and a top margin, and another div with class="details" inside it. The reason I'd use divs over paragraphs is incase the comment was multiple paragraphs. I dont really like nesting p tags.
There's no "proper" way in my opinion, without a 'comment' tag or an 'author' tag in HTML 4.
Left by Subcide | Aug. 12, 2008 at 5:00pm
I understand you can get text to speech via a flash object. That seems to be proper...
But I do think you are right with replacing all text comments with lorem ipsum. It will have the same meaning, but less risk to security and the company.
Left by Paul | Aug. 13, 2008 at 10:39am
The argument could be made for comments on a post being a list, so throwing all comments in a "ul" or "ol" with each comment being in a "li" would be an option. Using lists would also give you the ability to create sub-lists if you wanted to thread the conversations, similar to /. and digg.
Left by Mike at SC | Aug. 13, 2008 at 12:11pm
ooo, this is fun...
Would the first assumption be to have the comment #, author and date above the comment, maybe as a heading?
Left by bryankulba | Aug. 16, 2008 at 1:04am
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