[uf-discuss] Problem with VoteLinks?

[Costello, Roger L.]

Hey Brian,

I interpreted the specification: 

"Additional human-readable commentary can be added using the existing
'title' attribute, which most browsers show as a rollover."

To mean: provide a human-readable commentary on why you voted the way
you did.  In other words, the rationale for why you voted the way you
did.

Even your example is providing a rationale for why you voted against
the resource identified by the href:

<a rev="vote-against" 
   title="nasty corn syrup drink"
   href="http://ragingcow.com" >Raging Cow</a>

Your rationale for voting against the resource is that you find it to
be nasty.

If, as you say, the value of the title attribute is nothing more than
an ordinary HTML type of value containing information about the
resource identified by href, then I think the sentence in the
specification (listed above) should be removed from the wiki (as the
title attribute has nothing to do with VoteLinks).

Which is correct:

1. The value of the title attribute is a human-readable commentary on
why you voted the way you did (i.e., the rationale).

  - OR -

2. The value of the title attribute is an ordinary HTML type of value
for providing some text about the resource being linked to (i.e., title
has nothing to do with VoteLinks).

/Roger


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[mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Suda
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:56 PM
To: Microformats Discuss
Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Problem with VoteLinks?

On 6/7/07, Costello, Roger L. <costello at mitre.org> wrote:
>
> The VoteLinks specification says that a VoteLink is used to (1)
> indicate agreement or disagreement with the resource indicated by
href,
> and (2) the title attribute should be used to express a
human-readable
> commentary (i.e., a rationale) for the vote.

accoding to the wiki page, it says:
http://microformats.org/wiki/vote-links

"Additional human-readable commentary can be added using the existing
'title' attribute, which most browsers show as a rollover."

That is slightly different that your SHOULD BE and the text's CAN BE.

The examples are not being used to express voting strength or intent,
but simply a futher descripion of the text.

<a rev="vote-against" href="http://ragingcow.com" title="nasty corn
syrup drink">Raging Cow</a>

This is semantics at the level of HTML where the TITLE attribute
further describes the link. This has nothing to do directly with the
VOTING.

Where did you find your text? "(2) the title attribute should be used
to express a human-readable commentary (i.e., a rationale) for the
vote."

the spec page does not say (i.e. rationale) anywhere when i search for
it?

-brian

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brian suda
http://suda.co.uk
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