[uf-discuss] class="tag"

[Duncan Cragg]

Toby A Inkster wrote:
> One of the principles <http://microformats.org/wiki/principles> of 
> microformats is to build around current behaviours and usage patterns. 
> Microformats involve adding a few class names and rel values to 
> existing semantic HTML; they should not require major overhauls in 
> publishing patterns. Requiring authors to fiddle with .htaccess files 
> (or whatever) to provide themselves with a clean tagspace raises the 
> barrier to entry too high. The alternative: asking them to use a third 
> party's tagspace (e.g. link all their tags to Wikipedia or Technorati 
> or whatever) is unrealistic, and doesn't fit with existing publishing.
> <a rel="tag" href="http://example.com/tags/TheTag">NotThis</a>
> <a class="tag" href="http://example.com/tags/NotThis">TheTag</a>
+1

Looks good to me. In principle... I'm sure there are some practical 
wrinkles with a three-letter class that is also the name of a major part 
of HTML!

I favour this approach: apart from the practical consquences that you 
pointed out of having semantics in URLs and of not looking at real world 
examples, I have also previously expressed* my unease that the current 
rel-tag spec means that this Microformat is taking a position on URL 
opacity. 

Those of us who favour opaque URLs (actually for practical reasons such 
as clean separation of concerns, maintainability, etc.) are unhappy with 
being forced into a semantic URL schema when using rel-tag.

Duncan Cragg

* in person to Tantek, not publically documented