On Jan 1, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Angus McIntyre wrote:
The current spec for the xfolk microformat allows the inclusion of
tags in a format like:
<div class="meta">
<a rel="tag" href="/foo">foo</a>,
<a rel="tag" href="/bar">bar</a> ...
</div>
This assumes that tags will always be linked to some other object.
However, this isn't necessarily the case: I could imagine cases
where a webmaster might want to provide a list of keywords
associated with a link, but without linking those keywords (tags)
to anything else.
This was a deliberate design decision in rel-tag, which has been
covered before on this list.
-rk
Assuming that this is desirable, what would be the best way to
represent this. I can think of various possibilities. One would be
to simply omit the anchor:
<div class="meta">foo, bar ...</div>
which conforms to the spec as it stands but means that any process
reading the meta block would miss the fact that 'foo' and 'bar' are
actually tags.
A second option might be to have:
<div class="meta">
<a rel="tag" href="#">foo</a>,
<a rel="tag" href="#">bar</a> ...
</div>
but this would confuse human users (i.e. the browser would display
something that looked like a link, but just caused the page to
reload when clicked).
A third option would be to use 'span' instead, thus:
<div class="meta">
<span class="tag">foo</a>,
<span class="tag">bar</a> ...
</div>
To me, this looks like the best option, as it marks the tags
semantically, but doesn't mislead the user.
Anyone have any comments or suggestions, or have I overlooked some
existing and better way of doing this?
Thanks,
Angus
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Ryan King
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