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)]}

[Colin Barrett]

On Jan 31, 2007, at 3:46 AM, Frances Berriman wrote:

> On 31/01/07, Ben Ward <lists at ben-ward.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Chris Messina:
>> >> <div class="vcard" id="vcard">
>> >>  <address><a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/hcard/#hcard"  
>> class="fn
>> >> url" rel="me self">Chris Messina</a></address>
>> >>  <div class="org">Citizen Agency</a>
>> >>  ...
>> >> </div>
>> >>
>>
>> John Allsopp:
>> > The "definition" of the self attribute value in Atom is "self: the
>> > feed itself". The term "the" seems to indicate "definitiveness".
>> > So, I was initially going to argue that "self me" was tautological,
>> > but in fact, in this sense it is not, and indeed, the addition of
>> > bookmark is probably tautological.
>> >
>> > So, I'd probably +1 this suggestion, […]
>>
>> +1 from me as well.
>>
>> Can we gauge wider support for this addition? Any problems from  
>> anyone?
>
> +1

Can I get a clearer idea of what exactly is people are +1-ing? I +1  
@rel="self me", but am not willing to give my vote yet on using  
<address>, as it's not entirely clear if we're talking about mandating  
it, recommending it, etc. FWIW I'm not entirely convinced it's  
necessary to have it.

-Colin