anti-design-patterns

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anti-design-patterns

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"
    • 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.
    • It doesn't capture the semantic that you are presumably attempting to capture, like "this over here is my hCard". See hCard brainstorming on auto-discovery for current thoughts on this problem.

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