At one point in time, I considered having non-link tags, but that
just does not work in a distributed system. You need some sort of
context in which to interpret the tag when tags are coming from all
over.
In systems where tags are not links, there is always the implicit
assumption that tags are to be interpreted in the context of the
system where you find them. That is certainly the case in
del.icio.us and flickr.
I also perceived a considerable advantage in joining forces with by
far the most widely adopted tagging standard, reltag. You should too.
Bud
On Jan 1, 2006, at 22:36, Tantek Çelik wrote:
On 1/1/06 7:26 PM, "Ryan King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
*Imagining* cases is insufficient to be considered for microformats.
Actual substantial real-world empirical use cases are required.
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.
What Ryan is saying is that tags without links have been considered
and
rejected long ago.
Kevin, I have a feeling you have a longer more detailed explanation
of why
requiring tag-spaces are a good thing.
Perhaps you could start a rel-tag FAQ and add that info there:
http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag-faq
Thanks,
Tantek
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