View source

You do not have permission to edit pages, for the following reason:
The action you have requested is limited to users in the group Users.
You can view and copy the source of this page:
= Vote Links =
__TOC__
== Draft Specification 2005 ==
=== Editor ===
* [http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik], [http://technorati.com Technorati, Inc.]

=== Concept ===
* [http://epeus.blogspot.com/ Kevin Marks], [http://technorati.com, Technorati,Inc.]

=== Authors ===
* [http://epeus.blogspot.com/ Kevin Marks], [http://technorati.com Technorati, Inc]
* [http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik], [http://technorati.com Technorati, Inc]

=== Copyright ===
{{MicroFormatCopyrightStatement2004}}

=== Patents ===
{{MicroFormatPatentStatement}}

=== Inspiration and Acknowledgments ===
Thanks to everyone who has given feedback on VoteLinks.  Thanks especially to EtanWexler, who provided the first really good documentation that VoteLinks should be using 'rev' instead of 'rel' (see [[VoteLinksFAQ]]), and John Allsopp who similarly challenged the use of 'rel', and helped co-author the [[RelFAQ]] exploring questions and issues about the use of the HTML4 'rel', 'rev' attributes and linktypes in general.

== Introduction ==
Indexing and tracking applications treat all links as endorsements, or expressions of support. This is a problem, as we need to link to those we disagree with as well, to discuss why.

== Specification ==
VoteLinks is an [[elemental-microformat|elemental microformat]], one of several [[microformats|microformat]] open standards.
We propose a set of three new values for the rev attribute of the <a> (hyperlink) tag in HTML.

The new values are "vote-for" "vote-abstain" or "vote-against", which are mutually exclusive, and represent agreement, abstention or indifference, and disagreement respectively.

A link without an explicit vote 'rev' value is deemed to have value "vote-for" or "vote-abstain", depending on the application.

Additional human-readable commentary can be added using the existing 'title' attribute, which most browsers show as a rollover.

Examples:
 '''<pre><nowiki>
<a rev="vote-for" href="http://ragingcow.blogspot.com"  
   title="neat spoof">Raging Cow</a>
<a rev="vote-against" href="http://ragingcow.com"  
   title="nasty corn syrup drink">Raging Cow</a>
</nowiki></pre>'''

=== Deprecated: Using 'rel' for VoteLinks ===
A previous draft of the specification used the 'rel' value instead of the 'rev' attribute.  Analysis and feedback has demonstrated this to have been inappropriate use of the 'rel' attribute, when the 'rev' attribute was much more important.  See the [[RelFAQ]] for more details.

Implementations MAY support links with the VoteLinks values in the 'rel' attribute for backward compatibility with any existing VoteLinks content.

Authors MUST NOT use 'rel' for VoteLinks values.

== XMDP profile ==
<pre><nowiki>
<dl class="profile">
 <dt id="rev">rev</dt>
 <dd><p><a rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rev">
         HTML4 definition of the 'rev' attribute.</a>  
  Here are some additional values.</p>
  <dl>
   <dt id="vote-for">vote-for</dt>
   <dd>Indicates agreement with or recommendation for the referred resource.</dd>
   <dt id="vote-abstain">vote-abstain</dt>
   <dd>Indicates abstention or indifference for the referred resource.</dd>
   <dt id="vote-against">vote-against</dt>
   <dd>Indicates disagreement with or recommendation against the referred resource.</dd>
  </dl>
 </dd>
</dl>
</nowiki></pre>

== Implementations ==
This section is '''informative'''.

* [http://moloko.itc.it/paoloblog/ Paolo Massa] created [http://moloko.itc.it/paoloblog/semantic_links/ SemanticLinks], a small Firefox extension that shows vote-for, vote-against links information. (Note the download links for SemanticLinks have been removed by the author.)

== Normative References ==
* [http://gmpg.org/xmdp/ XMDP]

== Related Work ==
* [[xoxo]]
* [http://gmpg.org/xfn/ XFN]
* [http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/attentionxml Attention.xml]
* [[rellicense]]
* [[reltag]]
* [[relnofollow]]

== FAQ ==
* See [[votelinks-faq]] and the broader [[rel-faq]].
* See also [[votelinks-issues]] for issues which have been raised with the votelinks [[microformat]].
Templates used on this page:
Return to vote-links.
Retrieved from "http://microformats.org/wiki/vote-links"
Views

Microformats Wiki

Toolbox

Hey! You're not logged in
