[uf-discuss] The need for a Trackback microformat?

Fri Dec 2 10:56:40 PST 2005

On Dec 2, 2005, at 3:21 AM, Andreas Haugstrup wrote:
> On 2005年12月02日 02:39:54 +0100, Ryan King <ryan at technorati.com> 
> wrote:
>>>> Now that hAtom is as far as it is I need to ditch key parts of my 
>>> example and convert to hAtom which is more thorough (albeit 
>>> missing parts I use internally like rel="enclosure" and rel="cite").
>>>> Though http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-enclosure doesn't have a 
>> profile URI, there's no need to replicate that into hAtom, you can 
>> just use rel-enclosure.
>> I've been using rel="enclosure" longer than the rel-enclosure 
> document has been around, and that's why it's in my example. I use 
> it to generate (Yahoo Media) enclosures in my RSS feed. And along 
> with rel="cite" I use it to generate a list of enclosures and 
> citations on my archive pages (e.g. http://www.solitude.dk/archives/ 
> 2005_11.php ).
>> With that said rel-enclosure doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It 
> says "relEnclosure is one of several microformats. By adding 
> rel="enclosure" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the 
> destination of that hyperlink is intended to be downloaded and 
> cached."

Perhaps the language isn't entirely clear here. I think Kevin's 
intention was along the lines of "the destination is meant to be 
downloaded can cached by the useragent." Kevin?
> *Any* link indicates that the destination may be downloaded and 
> cached - that's the whole point of making a link. If it's not meant 
> to be downloaded there wouldn't be a link, and if it wasn't meant 
> to be cached the HTTP header would tell me so (and my browser would 
> handle it without me caring).
>> Enclosures have a different meaning. They are best compared to 
> attachments in e-mail. The enclosure is a part of the current 
> document and document+enclosure(s) should be seen as a whole. This 
> has great value when talking about blog posts (and hAtom) because 
> attachments are usually connected to a part of the page (a single 
> blog entry).
>> I don't care where I point my profiles to, but rel-enclosure isn't 
> what I mean when I use rel="enclosure".

I don't think your relEnclosure and http://microformats.org/wiki/rel- 
enclosure are that different, they're just explained differently. 
Also, I think they're close enough to be resolved. You want to work 
on that?
-ryan
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Ryan King
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