- From: Hugh Guiney <hugh.guiney@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:18:13 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> Also, as I pointed out in the original post, consumers already use >> rel=tag intending for it to apply only to portions of a page. > > Consumers or producers? What matters here is not changing _consumer_ > behaviour, so that we don't break pages written with the assumption that > they work as they do now. Ah, yeah, misunderstood "consumer" as a synonym for "author". Your reasoning does makes more sense to me now. But, I would still say that if existing consumer behavior is to apply tags to the entire document, then that is simply a limitation of producers not being able to explicitly say that certain tags only apply to portions of the page... which is actually an open issue on the Microformats Wiki for rel-tag[1], something that the HTML spec could potentially solve, and which <article> seems well-suited to solve. How badly would this actually break existing parsers? Could it really be worse than multiple <address>es? Or <style scoped>? And again, it isn't evident to me that pages *are* written with the assumption that robots work this way, as evidenced by WordPress's assignment of tags on a post-by-post basis[2], marked up with rel=tag[3], posts themselves being marked up with <article>, and multiple <article>s being displayed at once in the post listing views. As WordPress is currently the most popular blogging platform on the Internet[4], it represents significant existing usage of the attribute. [1]: http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag-issues (No anchor but see "2006-04-06 raised by Evan") [2]: http://codex.wordpress.org/images/b/b6/write1.png (See sidebar section "Post Tags") [3]: http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/blog/ (Inspect element any category or tag link) [4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WordPress&oldid=512508447 (first paragraph last sentence)
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