[uf-discuss] Re: XFN for email addresses?

[Chris Messina]

Perfect, thanks Brian. That's what I would have tought.

We should add this to the XFN-faq page. (I'll do it when back on my laptop).

Chris


On 6/13/07, Brian Suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/13/07, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmm, but both comments so far don't really say whether it's in-line
> > with current thinking on XFN to allow for XFN linking to non-URLs.
> >
> > <a href="aim:goim?screenname=factoryjoe" rel="me">IM Me</a>
> >
> > And as such, do the same for email addresses... right?
>
> --- i asked a similar question a year ago on IRC:
> http://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-05-12#T033706
>
> the answer (which i agree with) is yes.
>
> XFN defines the link the between two resouces, that is protocol
> agnostic. So http://, https://, mailto:, aim:, skype:, etc.
>
> I have been using this on my contact page for awhile. The rel-linter
> finds the just fine:
> http://tools.microformatic.com/help/xhtml/rel-lint/
>
> -brian
>
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