On Feb 24, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Mike Kaply wrote:
Was there a reason in the original creation of rel-tag that no one thought to allow title to specify the tagname?
Yes, the idea was to make it more resilient against gaming by requiring the URL to embody the tag. This followed existing practice on successful tagging sites, and generalised it to a decentralised model.
What should a front-end developer do in situations where the back-end developer can't/won't make changes to support the syntax that the rel-tag spec requires?
Use an external tagspace. Having your own tagspace is not necessarily a good idea; you want the tag link to be helpful to readers. In many cases, linking to flickr, wikipedia, technorati or delicious is mroe useful than linking to an internal page that just links back to the post in question if it is a singly-used tag.
Also, the backend dev may be more amenable when you pepper your posts with external links...
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