On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 12:58:23PM -0800, Tantek Çelik wrote: > On 12/23/05 6:04 AM, "Frederic de Villamil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi list, > > I was lately thinking about a way to tell the most accurate way that a > > link points to a page with content not suitable for people under a > > certain age, such as porn, violence... > > What subjects are suitable or not for people of what age differs greatly > across both different cultures in the same time (e.g. in the present), and > the same culture across different times. > > > > the list should be long. > > And for that reason, there shouldn't be a precise list, or taxonomy, > certainly not developed by the microformats community. > > For such lists, it is much preferable to use a folksonomy, or simple tags > that each individual in the community applies in their own determination. > > > > I've been thinking about vote-links, and I'm wondering why we could not > > use rev="pg13" or rev="pg16" in links the way we use vote-for and > > vote-against in vote links. > > > > It would give something like this: > > <a href="http://www.example.com"; rev="pg13" title="not suitable for > > people under 13">some page</a> > > An effectively identical proposal, rel="xxx" has been proposed and rejected, > please see the archives. > > Also, please see the rel-faq which also discusses rev. This proposal is an > incorrect use of rev. > > http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-faq > > In short, rev="vote-for" means the current page is a "vote-for" the > referenced page. > > Whereas, it makes no sense to say that the current page is a "pg13" for the > referenced page. > > > The short answer is, rather than jumping to using a rel or rev value, first > describe what you are trying to do, and then the answer is fairly > straightforward. > > > My understanding of what you are trying to do is this: > > > Enable any author on the web to associate one or more keywords pertaining to > aspects of content with a url associated with that content. > > > As with the rejection of rel="xxx", there is no need to specify a new > specific microformat with specific keywords or tags for this. > > > The right answer here is to use either xFolk and/or hReview to tag and/or > review the content in question, using whatever tags you want to use. > > http://microformats.org/wiki/xfolk > > http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview > > If you want to use the precise meaning of tags or keywords defined by a > particular authority, then you need a URL tagspace for those precise > meanings, as defined in the rel-tag standard. > > http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag > > > Thanks, > > Tantek
Tantek, I did not follow the rejection of rel="xxx" and I misunderstood the real purpose of rev="xxx" after reading Ryan's article. Thank you for enlighting me and pointing my mistakes out. After reading all this, tags are obviously the best way to do what I wanted to do. Frederic _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
