Comments on: How much modification can an hReview take and still be an hReview? http://www.webteacher.ws/2007/10/12/how-much-modification-can-an-hreview-take-and-still-be-an-hreview/ Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:58:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: vdebolt http://www.webteacher.ws/2007/10/12/how-much-modification-can-an-hreview-take-and-still-be-an-hreview/comment-page-1/#comment-208 vdebolt Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:15:42 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/2007/10/12/how-much-modification-can-an-hreview-take-and-still-be-an-hreview/#comment-208 Thanks for the link to the review schema. I hadn't seen this before and it tells me everything I need to know. I'm embarrassed to admit I overlooked it before now. Teli, you shared so much knowledge with me in dealing with how to move this blog from Blogger to Wordpress, I'm thrilled to introduce you to something you don't already know about. Thanks for the link to the review schema. I hadn’t seen this before and it tells me everything I need to know. I’m embarrassed to admit I overlooked it before now.

Teli, you shared so much knowledge with me in dealing with how to move this blog from Blogger to WordPress, I’m thrilled to introduce you to something you don’t already know about.

]]> By: Teli Adlam http://www.webteacher.ws/2007/10/12/how-much-modification-can-an-hreview-take-and-still-be-an-hreview/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Teli Adlam Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:12:13 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/2007/10/12/how-much-modification-can-an-hreview-take-and-still-be-an-hreview/#comment-207 Also forgot to mention the star rating issue. The system seems to be <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview#Product_review" rel="nofollow">pretty flexible</a> with what you can use. From the wiki, it appears to be just to replace the asterisks with your own personal choice of value as long as you wrap it up in an abbr tag with the attributes class="rating" and title="value" (value replaced with the rating integer.) Example: <abbr class="rating" title="1.0">OMG! It bit the big one</abbr> would still be recognized as the rating of "1.0" (or worst). In the same vein, you could just wrap the integer in a span with a class="rating" attribute and the integer will be picked up. Example: <span class="rating">4</span> on the Hot Meter would be interpreted as a 4 rating, but displayed as "4" on the Hot Meter". Hope all of this makes sense. LOL ~ Teli Also forgot to mention the star rating issue. The system seems to be pretty flexible with what you can use.

From the wiki, it appears to be just to replace the asterisks with your own personal choice of value as long as you wrap it up in an abbr tag with the attributes class=”rating” and title=”value” (value replaced with the rating integer.)

Example:
<abbr class=”rating” title=”1.0″>OMG! It bit the big one</abbr> would still be recognized as the rating of “1.0″ (or worst).

In the same vein, you could just wrap the integer in a span with a class=”rating” attribute and the integer will be picked up.

Example:
<span class=”rating”>4</span> on the Hot Meter would be interpreted as a 4 rating, but displayed as “4″ on the Hot Meter”.

Hope all of this makes sense. LOL

~ Teli

]]> By: Teli Adlam http://www.webteacher.ws/2007/10/12/how-much-modification-can-an-hreview-take-and-still-be-an-hreview/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Teli Adlam Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:58:09 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/2007/10/12/how-much-modification-can-an-hreview-take-and-still-be-an-hreview/#comment-206 After reading through the entire hReview wiki page, it seems to me that the most important elements of the hReview are the attributes used and whether it's marked up accurately. Basically, your modified version of an hReview will still be considered an hReview because it uses valid mark up and contains the proper attributes. Plus, much of the <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview#Schema" rel="nofollow">review schema</a> values are optional such as the reviewer name and date. For instance, have a look at <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview#Restaurant_reviews" rel="nofollow">their second restaurant review example</a> -- they've done exactly what you've done by changing the <blockquote> tag into a division with a class="description" and changing the heading level 2 to a heading level 4. To be honest, this is the first I'm hearing about the hReview format and after learning about it, it sounds cool. I will probably adopt it for my book review site and see how I like it in the long run. :) ~ Teli After reading through the entire hReview wiki page, it seems to me that the most important elements of the hReview are the attributes used and whether it’s marked up accurately.

Basically, your modified version of an hReview will still be considered an hReview because it uses valid mark up and contains the proper attributes. Plus, much of the review schema values are optional such as the reviewer name and date.

For instance, have a look at their second restaurant review example — they’ve done exactly what you’ve done by changing the <blockquote> tag into a division with a class=”description” and changing the heading level 2 to a heading level 4.

To be honest, this is the first I’m hearing about the hReview format and after learning about it, it sounds cool. I will probably adopt it for my book review site and see how I like it in the long run. :)

~ Teli

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