Chris Messina wrote:
While I've resisted the temptation so far, it does seem that, in order to build a relevant and useful cross-social networking tool -- I need a way to use email addresses as well as URLs to identify people. In
Therefore, this: <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" rel="contact">Buddy</a> should be as acceptable as this: <a href="http://foo.com/buddy"; rel="contact">Buddy</a> And, on http://foo.com/buddy, this should be permissible: <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" rel="me">Buddy</a>
IMHO, XFN defines the relationship to that person, not what sort of link is being used. As the link type can be determined by looking at the URL I would imagine that any software would take that in to account if required. All you are doing with XFN is saying, for example, "this link/email/im is my friend/muse/etc".
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