[uf-discuss] rel="tag"

[Andy Mabbett]

In message
<cdc278e10701040211u30f5e035m16d7e59a849f4665 at mail.gmail.com>, Ciaran
McNulty <mail at ciaranmcnulty.com> writes

>>I expect the visible content, not what's appended to
>> the end of a URL.  Anyone care to shed some light on this for me?
>
>The main reason that I can see is to allow normalisation of tags
>across different pages.  One might have <a
>href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28soccer%29">Soccer</a>
>and the other <a
>href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28soccer%29">Football</a>,
>for instance.

Aren't they "hidden metadata"? Shouldn't they both be:

        <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28soccer%29">
        Football (soccer)</a>


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Andy Mabbett

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