[uf-discuss] Lets talk about rev?

Tue Nov 18 01:36:20 PST 2008

Tantek Celik wrote:
> Martin:
>>>> they know how rev and rel works......
>>>> There has been no evidence shown to demonstrate this. 
>?
> On the contrary, the overwhelming evidence (anecdotal and quantitative by the Google/Hixie markup study) has demonstrated the opposite: they don't know how rev works.
>Yes I have seen the evidence... :-(
> If you want to argue for use of rev in general and/or present evidence for it, I suggest doing so at a lower level, that is in the HTML5 community (since it is an HTML attribute you are asking for general use of), either on the whatwg list or the w3c public-html list.
>
Thank you I will, I will drop the whatwg later on today..
> Tantek
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin McEvoy <martin at weborganics.co.uk>
>> Date: 2008年11月18日 03:06:54 
> To: Microformats Discuss<microformats-discuss at microformats.org>
> Subject: [uf-discuss] Lets talk about rev?
>>> Hello
>> I was going to post this to uf new but the topic is not new.
>> I would like to ask "please" can we (the community) start talking about 
> rev microformats again please, I know that rev is "grandfathered" in new 
> Microformats because most of the time the average author gets it wrong 
> (according to google anyway), but really microformats developers are 
> becoming a breed of forward thinking savvy developers, that are not just 
> interested in Microformats Many are interested in expressing semantics 
> in wild and wonderful ways, they know how rev and rel works...... and I 
> am over dramatizing sorry to the point....
>> You will all no doubt seen many blogs with links in the sidebar to 
> places or projects, applications, websites, music...etc that they have 
> been involved with?
>> Say I made an application and I put a link to it somewhere on my 
> homepage as a way of saying this Is a great app that I made go check it 
> out, how do I build that link, I would like to add something explicit 
> like this
>> <a rev="made" href="http://transformr.co.uk/">TranFormr</a>
>> would mean..
>> <http://weborganics.co.uk/> made <http://transformr.co.uk/>
>> another good example of where a rev link would be useful Is when you 
> post an article on your own blog as a response or reply to another post 
> on someone else's blog, rev would be ideal in this case because you 
> could mark up your post like this... real world example found here: 
> http://nfegen.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/micrordformats/
>> <p>I read an interesting post recently, <a 
> href="http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-how-about-using-rdfa-in-microformats.html" 
> title="Link to Mark Birbeck blog post">‘So how about using RDFa in 
> Microformats?’</a>....</p>
>> by adding rev-reply to the above link...
>> <a rev="reply" 
> href="http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-how-about-using-rdfa-in-microformats.html" 
> title="Link to Mark Birbeck blog post">‘So how about using RDFa in 
> Microformats?’</a>
>> the author would be saying...
>> <http://nfegen.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/micrordformats/> is a reply to 
> <http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-how-about-using-rdfa-in-microformats.html>
>> Nice I think, kind of like a pingback? there are probably a lot more 
> examples I could make but I think I have done enough to make my point.
>>> Thanks
>>
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Martin McEvoy
http://weborganics.co.uk/