On 10/13/07, Chris Messina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will Norris made a great suggesting for making OpenID delegation links > compatible with XFN rel-me links. I actually think that it's okay to > use <link />'s in the header of a document to point to other social > networks and so on... I understand that this is not kosher with > marking up visible data, but if it's going to be there anyway (and > it's part of the OpenID spec) we might as well markup the links in the > microformats format: > > <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server"; /> > <link rel="openid.delegate me" href="http://will.norris.name/"; / > > Thoughts on this? I know that I'll get push back, but logically why not this? > > <link rel="me" href="http://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe"; /> > <link rel="me" href="http://ma.gnolia.com/people/factoryjoe"; /> >
Logically, sure, fine. Practically, one might need to check that OpenID libraries are parsing the HTML properly (the XFN tools will be fine, since they are coded with multiple values in mind) - the programmer may have neglected to look for space-separated values inside the rel value. I know I'd have to edit the source of an OpenID function I wrote a while back. GrokXFN.xsl (the GRDDL parser for XFN) only looks in 'a' elements for XFN links. I'm not sure about other parsers (and it's 2am, so I'm not lookin'...) I think it's a good idea. Visible meta-data is a good idea, but not an absolute requirement. (Of course, all data is visible - 'View Source'). Putting microformats on head/link elements is fine, in my book. The more data, the merrier. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
