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

Ryan King ryan at technorati.com
Wed Feb 7 13:27:59 PST 2007


On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:47 PM, David Janes wrote:

> 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).

Actually it's *the*ryanking.com. ;)

-ryan
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