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** -1 [[User:Tantek|Tantek]]: "older" feels wrong as a noun. | ** -1 [[User:Tantek|Tantek]]: "older" feels wrong as a noun. | ||
* rel=version | * rel=version | ||
** +1 [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] : this feels like the most human-author-friendly term of these. | |||
* rel=revision | * rel=revision | ||
** Mediawiki uses the term "revision" in the UI when you're viewing a previous version of a page. | |||
** "revision" has a developer feel to it, common terminology in revision control systems (naturally) like git etc. | |||
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A related use case is to be able to find the current version of document when looking at an older version. For this, the following rel values are being considered: | A related use case is to be able to find the current version of document when looking at an older version. For this, the following rel values are being considered: | ||
* rel=current | * rel=current | ||
** seems like a link to something that is always current, not that it happens to be current right now. - [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] | |||
* rel=latest | * rel=latest | ||
** might mean a specific link to the latest version, though W3C specs use the phrase "Latest Version" to label the link to the always current URL - [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] | |||
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Revision as of 21:11, 1 April 2013
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Per the microformats process, this is a page for researching and brainstorming a rel value for linking to a previous version of a page.
use case
To be able to discover previous versions of a document automatically from a document.
examples
- W3C. Nearly every W3C specification has a link in the header to the "Previous Version".
- ...
formats
revision control systems
Revision control systems (RCS) like:
- CVS
- SVN
- mercurial (hg)
- git
All have ways of representing previous versions of a document.
brainstorming
Several rel values are being considered for linking from a document to a previous version of that document.
- rel=older
- -1 Tantek: "older" feels wrong as a noun.
- rel=version
- +1 Tantek : this feels like the most human-author-friendly term of these.
- rel=revision
- Mediawiki uses the term "revision" in the UI when you're viewing a previous version of a page.
- "revision" has a developer feel to it, common terminology in revision control systems (naturally) like git etc.
- ...
A related use case is to be able to find the current version of document when looking at an older version. For this, the following rel values are being considered:
- rel=current
- seems like a link to something that is always current, not that it happens to be current right now. - Tantek
- rel=latest
- might mean a specific link to the latest version, though W3C specs use the phrase "Latest Version" to label the link to the always current URL - Tantek
- ...
You can already use:
- rel-canonical to link to the canonical version of a page. But this doesn't mean it's a different version, if anything, it may be the exact same content just at a shorter or more reliable/official URL.