Hello
I was going to post this to uf new but the topic is not new.
I would like to ask "please" can we (the community) start talking about
rev microformats again please, I know that rev is "grandfathered" in new
Microformats because most of the time the average author gets it wrong
(according to google anyway), but really microformats developers are
becoming a breed of forward thinking savvy developers, that are not just
interested in Microformats Many are interested in expressing semantics
in wild and wonderful ways, they know how rev and rel works...... and I
am over dramatizing sorry to the point....
You will all no doubt seen many blogs with links in the sidebar to
places or projects, applications, websites, music...etc that they have
been involved with?
Say I made an application and I put a link to it somewhere on my
homepage as a way of saying this Is a great app that I made go check it
out, how do I build that link, I would like to add something explicit
like this
<a rev="made" href="http://transformr.co.uk/";>TranFormr</a>
would mean..
<http://weborganics.co.uk/> made <http://transformr.co.uk/>
another good example of where a rev link would be useful Is when you
post an article on your own blog as a response or reply to another post
on someone else's blog, rev would be ideal in this case because you
could mark up your post like this... real world example found here:
http://nfegen.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/micrordformats/
<p>I read an interesting post recently, <a
href="http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-how-about-using-rdfa-in-microformats.html";
title="Link to Mark Birbeck blog post">‘So how about using RDFa in
Microformats?’</a>....</p>
by adding rev-reply to the above link...
<a rev="reply"
href="http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-how-about-using-rdfa-in-microformats.html";
title="Link to Mark Birbeck blog post">‘So how about using RDFa in
Microformats?’</a>
the author would be saying...
<http://nfegen.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/micrordformats/> is a reply to
<http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-how-about-using-rdfa-in-microformats.html>
Nice I think, kind of like a pingback? there are probably a lot more
examples I could make but I think I have done enough to make my point.
Thanks
--
Martin McEvoy
http://weborganics.co.uk/
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