microformats field

[Martijn Geerts]

It's a returning thing we all have, adding personal/company information on a website.

Would it be beneficial to have a fieldtype that handles all that contact information ?

What do you think ?

[benbyf]

usually add this to the home page as 'settings' like fields, agree it might be nice to have a formal way of doing it or a seperate module created page

[SiNNuT]

I'm not sure a fieldtype/inputfield would be able to handle this elegantly. Sometimes you want to use microformats, another time you might need/want a scheme form schema.org with microdata markup. The data to represent persons and/or businesses/organisations isn't always the same.

[Martijn Geerts]

It's been on my mind for quite a long time. The reason I didn't start it is the reason you mentioned. Maybe someone comes up with a genius solution.

[alan]

FWIW After reading The Truth About HTML5 and also because Google, Microsoft and Yahoo all piled in on schema.org (and agreed something!), even tho' I loved and used http://microformats.org/ before I now standardize on using schema.org micro format markup.

The ability to auto-add micro format data to content sounds very good, I just expect there to be enough permutations that I would likely need to hand mark up content often as well and so I wonder if auto added micro format data could ever take over. If it could it would be a boon

[SiNNuT]

You could probably come up with a module or inputfield/fieldtype that can hold some of the most common stuff like http://schema.org/PostalAddress

But for example http://schema.org/Person ,there is just too much stuff that is or isn't aplicable dependent on the project at hand.