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)]}

[Ryan King]

On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:56 PM, David Janes wrote:
> 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.

Nothing special is needed at /blog/contact/.

-ryan
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Ryan King
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