[uf-discuss] Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

[David Janes]

On 2/7/07, Ara Pehlivanian <ara.pehlivanian at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/7/07, David Janes <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> wrote:
> > I think you're missing a stage:
> >
> > - fragment hcard (anywhere on the net by anybody)
> > - points to home page, using class="url"
> > - home page, using class="something" rel="something-else", points to
> > authoritative hcard
> >
> > e.g. Ryan King hCards in the wild point to http://www.ryanking.com;
> > http://www.ryanking.com (somehow) points to
> > http://www.ryanking.com/contact/ which has his authoritative hCard.
> >
> > At most one back reference is required.
>
> Is that the intended use though? Just managing the authoritative hCard
> within a domain?

No, Ryan King could have his authoritative hCard on LinkedIn
(hypothetical example). He still, however, refers to himself in his
hCards as url=http://www.ryanking.com (real example).

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