There is some relevant discussion on the rest-discuss forum:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/5423
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Dierken
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 12:42 PM
To: 'ROBO Design'
Cc: 'WHAT WG List'
Subject: Re: [whatwg] rel/rev for form ?
form action=houses-for-sale.cgi method='GET'
input name='zip' class='gov.us/postal/zip-code' type='text' /
/form
It would be cool to have a service that discovered these
forms and
then provided a search of all the URIs that accepted
social-security-number, or zip-code.
I must say you came with a really interesting idea. Yes,
that would be
good. I suppose you don't want the CLASS attribute for the
INPUTs to
serve the purpose you've emphased. The REL attribute
wouldn't be good
in this case. So, definitely a new one is needed.
My suggestion would be to use the attribute named TAGS
(yes, I know it
is inspired by del.icio.us and co., but ideas are always welcome).
input name='zip' tags='gov.us postal zip-code' type='text' /
Separated by spaces, working much in the same way as REL.
The order of
the tags does not matter and these could provide clues to
web crawlers
and even browsers on the expected input. Microformats, in
the same way
as with REL, could define various input tags serving various
purposes. Based on this, for example, a web browser could
automatically provide a list of known ZIP codes in the US.
I was thinking too twentieth century - using multiple values
to 'tag' the semantic meaning of the input is better than a
single URI style 'unambigous'
value. As long as the syntax of the values within the 'tag'
allows for URI style 'unambigous' values, then both
approaches (URI-namespaces and
folksonomy) can be used.
This would be awesome, and would provide backwards compatibility,
because everything else is still the same.
Only newer browsers could greatly enhance (when users fill
forms) the user experience.
Yet, this is very different from the initial proposal Charles made.
Yeah, but I couldn't resist talking about what I've hoped
would come along all these years...
