On 16 Aug 2006, at 23:23, Steve Williams wrote:
I'd think you'd need something more like <link rel="thumbnail"> ...
I thought of that, and I like it a lot. Is that a common pattern
in new microformat proposals?
@rel gets a lot of use where appropriate. The only thing here is that
you must remember the rel refers to the _page_ the link exists on,
not necessarily a part of media within that page. Although, I believe
xFolk limits to scope of rel-tag, so perhaps there's a precedent for
extending its use.
If scope limiting rel and rev is appropriate here, I think that that
something like this would be valid:
<a href="movie.mov" type="video/quicktime" rev="thumbnail"><img
src="thumb.png" alt="…"/></a>
@rev in this case indicating the current page/fragment (indicated by
rev-thumbnail) is a thumbnail for the page being linked to.
Remembering that rel describes the relationship between the link and
the current page (e.g rel-stylesheet says the linked document is a
stylesheet FOR the current page), rev describes the reversed
relationship of current page for the link.
In this case, you're additionally specifying the IMG child of a rev-
thumbnail link is the thumbnail for the content of the linked page.
… I think that's right anyway. Rev does make me think at this time of
night!
Ben
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