evan_tech -- one more post about this

01:14 pm, 19 Jan 05

one more post about this

Just to give myself some more props:

[...] Google is doing this the right way. They went back and read the HTML specification to see if it was already capable of doing what they needed. It does? Great! Let's utilize the standard!
[ http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=136549&cid=11406859 ]

And yes, that's exactly what I did.

theorb	As an occasional random user of sites that have this problem, thank you. (And it's a great way to solve it -- removing the motivitation instead of starting an arms race, and respecting existing standards instead of giving people another reason to create nonconformant HTML (or worse, XML).)
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drbrain	So... You're the one to blame^W^W responsible for this? Is this also a response to people hitting the google URL redirector? (http://google.com/url? or whatever, but I doubt that that many people could be using it such that it would cause a problem)
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drbrain Err, yeah, gotta read down the friends page more.

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legolas Cool, must feel very nice to see your idea used everywhere like that! And I thought releasing software felt good...

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hober There are several other projects that try to take advantage of the rel attribute: XFN, for one.

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mart
My only criticism is that values of rel should probably be nouns, not verbs. I don't know what would have been better, though.

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- evan I didn't come up with the part after "rel". ;)
  I believe it's meant to be analagous to robots.txt.
  
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drbrain	Err, yeah, gotta read down the friends page more.
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legolas	Cool, must feel very nice to see your idea used everywhere like that! And I thought releasing software felt good...
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hober	There are several other projects that try to take advantage of the `rel` attribute: XFN, for one.
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mart	My only criticism is that values of rel should probably be nouns, not verbs. I don't know what would have been better, though.
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evan	I didn't come up with the part after "rel". ;) I believe it's meant to be analagous to robots.txt.
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