[whatwg] Absent rev?

Martin McEvoy wrote:
> Robert O'Rourke wrote:
>> Hi Martin, hope you're well :)
>
> Hello Rob, nice to hear from you, yes I am well.... :-)

Glad to hear it!

>
>>
>> I don't chirp up that often on this list but I have to agree that 
>> @rev isn't much of a loss. Perhaps for the above example rel="source" 
>> or rel="muse" would be semantically valid as a reply could be said to 
>> be inspired by the thing it's replying to... maybe that's a bad example.
>
> No Not that bad rel=muse is near the mark, but the author of the page 
> I am referencing may not give me inspiration, I just want to reply to 
> someone, it may be rhetorical, or insulting?
>
> XFN rel values like "muse" are about how you think they would relate 
> to you, not about how you would relate to them ...
>
> @rev => how "this" relates to "that"
>
> @rel => how "that" relates to "this"
>

I can see it's usefulness. The way I see it the spec is not set in stone 
yet, and you could still use @rev (if you don't mind the odd HTML5 
validation error), it's just up to the particular xfn/microformats 
parsers to actually do something with it, but I don't know much about 
the current parsers.

Maybe you could ask forum or commenting services like disqus.com if 
they're interested in putting @rev="reply" attributes on the comments 
where they link back to the source or to another comment. That'd 
generate a good real-world example. It could also be used on the 
permalinks for blog comments - in wordpress the links go to the 
url+fragment identifier of the comment. It could be a nice way to index 
and timeline online 'conversations' through blog posts and comments, 
especially if they're across disparate websites.

Anyway I'm rambling way off topic now, sorry.

Cheers,
Rob

Received on Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:23:48 UTC