VoteLinks are quite muddy and their meaning is pretty unclear.
I'd disagree there. The intent is clear -to be able to express
agreement and disagreement with a linked-to page from the current
context.
In practice, however, rel-nofollow has won out as disagreement, with
plain links as agreement. The formulation above:
<a rev="vote-for" rel="nofollow" href="...">Like</a>
has 2 votes for the same thing, as rel="nofollow" is equivalent to
rev="vote-abstain" - very hard to work out what your intent is there,.
rel="nofollow" is used by many search engines as "don't follow this link" instead of
the definition in the wiki: "SHOULD NOT be afforded any additional weight...". This is
why it's there. I know robots.txt should handle this instead (it does), but many
crawlers don't.
It would be nice to have a more general microformat for associating a target with
a "label", more or less like xfn.
you mean tagging a linked-to page? that's what xfolk is for:
http://microformats.org/wiki/xfolk
though in practice hReview seems to be used more widely for this.
I don't mean for tags that already exist, but the action of tagging
itself.
Again, the problem of "acting on" vs "having acted on" that confused me shows
up. How about something like this rough draft to follow.
For acting on (polling):
<div about="#something" class="item">
<a href="..." rel="action:like">I like cheese</a>
<a href="..." rel="action:blue">I think cheese is always blue</a>
</div>
For having acted on (similar to vote-links)
<div about="#me" class="item">
<a href="..." rev="opinion:like">I like cheese</a>
<p href="..." rev="opinion:blue">I think cheese is always blue</a>
</div>
Although I think this later one should also have information about who likes it
(perhaps an hCard), since we could, for example, have a list of expert opinions about
cheese. But I don't like the exchanges of roles of "about" (I hope I got it
right).
I think that HTML forms would likely be the dominant way to express a
voting user interface when you did the analysis of existing markup
that is a key part of the process; re-expressing this for links seems
like a big step back.
I agree, the links were just shorter to type. For example:
<form action="/something" method="POST">
<button type="submit" name="vote" value="like">I like it</button>
<input type="submit" name="vote" value="hate">I hate it</button>
</form>
I think it would be useful to have a microformat which says: "this form is a poll
about xxx". Is there one already? Does anybody else think it'd be useful?
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