[uf-new] Use of img in rel-* (with analyzed data)

Tantek Ç elik tantek at cs.stanford.edu
Sun Jul 15 14:52:07 PDT 2007


On 7/15/07 2:45 PM, "Manu Sporny" <msporny at digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> You don't have the option of setting "rel-*" properties on images. That
> is the whole point of this discussion. Your "just set it on the <img>
> element" argument doesn't work for "rel-*". rel-* always go on anchor
> elements (<a>).

rel-* never applies for image content anyway because rel-* semantics are
always between one URL and another URL which you must *hyperlink* to.

It's the HTML 4.01 specification that provides this restriction, not
microformats.

Thus rel-* and <img> is a non-issue.

Tantek




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