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Just as there are [[design-patterns]] to encourage and follow, there are '''anti-design-patterns''' to discourage and avoid.
Just as there are [[design-patterns]] to encourage and follow, there are '''anti-design-patterns''' to discourage and avoid.


* rel="formatname", e.g. rel="hcard"
== rel formatname ==
** Indicating the ''type'' of the information does not indicate the ''semantic''.  This was one of the mistakes in the design of XML-RPC and should not be propagated to rel values.
rel="formatname", e.g. rel="hcard"
** It doesn't capture the semantic that you are presumably attempting to capture, like "this over here is my hCard".  See [[hcard-brainstorming#Auto-Discovery|hCard brainstorming on auto-discovery]] for current thoughts on this problem.


== See Also ==
Problems:
* [[design-patterns]]
* Indicating the ''type'' of the information does not indicate the ''semantic''. This was one of the mistakes in the design of XML-RPC '''(citation needed)''' and should not be propagated to rel values.
* In particular such a rel value fails to capture and represent/indicate an explicit semantic, like "this over here is my hCard". See [[hcard-brainstorming#Auto-Discovery|hCard brainstorming on auto-discovery]] for current thoughts on this problem.
 
== See also ==
*[[design-patterns]]
*[[anti-patterns]]
*[[social-network-anti-patterns]]

Latest revision as of 19:00, 20 December 2008

anti-design-patterns

Just as there are design-patterns to encourage and follow, there are anti-design-patterns to discourage and avoid.

rel formatname

rel="formatname", e.g. rel="hcard"

Problems:

  • Indicating the type of the information does not indicate the semantic. This was one of the mistakes in the design of XML-RPC (citation needed) and should not be propagated to rel values.
  • In particular such a rel value fails to capture and represent/indicate an explicit semantic, like "this over here is my hCard". See hCard brainstorming on auto-discovery for current thoughts on this problem.

See also