Re: Getting beyond the ping pong match (was RE: Cleaning House)

On May 5, 2007, at 23:30, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> When an author used class="copyright" for whatever reason (styling,  
> scripting, documentation), we have no right to infer that he meant  
> semantics specified for this attribute years later in a draft.

When Google started inferring authority from links, did they ask  
anyone if they had the right?

> (For example, in my page about intellectual rights, I may well have  
> marked parts _discussing_ copyright issues with such an attribute,

I know you have pages discussing copyright but do you really use  
class='copyright' for something other than copyright notices? Do you  
expect the usage of class='copyright' for something other than  
copyright notices to be a common practice to a degree that it would  
be unreasonable to assume that class='copyright' marks a copyright  
notice?

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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:27:46 UTC