Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard {was: Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]}

[David Janes]

On 2/7/07, Ryan King <ryan at technorati.com> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:50 PM, David Janes wrote:
>
> > On 2/7/07, Ryan King <ryan at technorati.com> wrote:
> >> Yes there are several problems:
> >>
> >> 1. XFN applies to whole pages. This means that you can't reliably put
> >> different people's hCards on the same page and do this.
> >>
> >> 2. We have prior art that is being ignored. Publishers are already
> >> using <a class="url uid" ...>...</a> to do this.
> >>
> >>
> >> I apologize for being late to this discussion, but I think it's off
> >> track and we need to correct things a bit.
> >>
> >
> > Sure. Show us how it works with the original real-world case I
> > provided -- i.e. your hCard on microformats.org blog, pointing to your
> > home page, using your /contacts hcard as your authoritative hCard.
>
>
> On mf.org:
>
> <address class="author vcard"><a class="url uid fn" href="http://
> theryanking.com/">Ryan</a></address>
>
> at http://theryanking.com/:
>
> <address class="vcard">This site is the work of <a href="http://
> theryanking.com/blog/contact/#vcard" class="fn uid url">Ryan King</
> a></address>

And at the end-point? (i.e. on /blog/contact). The reason I'm asking
is "what's the rule for determining if the hCard I'm looking at points
to the authorative one". Both of these look the same.

-- 
David Janes
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