I have wasted hours try fruitlessly to develop a site and use microformats at the same time. I wanted to add some of the microformats use early on, in the design stage, but I couldn't find anything that wouldn't require me filling in information I don't already know. I kept thinking about what the rel-tag is for, "to describe the relation between the current page and the linked document", and then it struck me, why not try something there. We have maybe four other rel-tag attributes for a link now, one more couldn't hurt. I started to use what I like to call the rel-location.
I got bored and thought that it might not just be good for the server to know, but the user as well, that they may be traveling away from the native server. The links could use a rel-tag to tell that. The possible values would be, "internal", or "external". They could be used in numerous ways, but I digress. The idea would give whether or not the page is hosted by the server, or a different server. This is how I ended up seeing it used: <ul id="page-navigation" rel="links"> <li><a href="index.php" rel="internal home">Homepage</a></li> <li><a href="about.php" rel="internal">About</a></li> <li><a href="...search engine..." rel="external ">Search</a></li> </ul> That was just one excerpt. The idea is to direct the user to a page located on the local server. It may be needless, but it could help with preventing theft of user information. It is simple and only needs to be added once. It makes it easy to understand. This could help. I may just be jumping off the deep end, but I thought it was a good idea. _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
