[uf-discuss] Vote Links: rel="voted-for"

Ara Pehlivanian ara.pehlivanian at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 08:21:22 PST 2007


> The only difference here is the tense of the word 'vote'. Moving
> 'vote' from the present tense to the past tense doesn't change the
> direction of the relationship.
>
> rel="vote-for" would mean 'The page I am linking to is a vote for
> this page'
> rev="vote-for" means 'This page is a for for the page I am linking to'
>
> Separate terms are really not needed to express what you're asking for.

You're right, the semantics of the relationship are carried by the
attribute name and not it's value. The value represents the type of
vote whereas the attribute name denotes the direction. I feel kind of
silly now that I understand it better. Thanks for the explanation. :-)

A.


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