rel-tag-other-evidence
Evidence of tagging with other schemas
rel-tag requires URLs in the format example.com/optional/path/to/tag; but other tagging behaviour exists "in the wild". This page is for capturing such behaviours.
Tag as query string
- NaviTraveller (Lincoln Memorial)
<a href="/search.php?tag=Lincoln">Lincoln</a>
- URL: http://www.navitraveler.com/search.php?tag=Lincoln
Tags in WikiMedia categories
- Wikipedia (Microformat)
<a href="/wiki/Category:Microformats" title="Category:Microformats">Microformats</a>
- URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Microformats
Tags in element content
- Destination out (already using
rel="tag"
)<A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Anthony Davis" href="http://destination-out.com/?cat=111">Anthony Davis</A>
Potential tag spaces
(using one of the above schema)
Brainstorming
In order to accommodate tagging behaviour seen in the wild, it may be necessary to have multiple methods of marking-up tags:
- rel-tag
- Using the element contents:
<A class= "tag" href="http://destination-out.com/?cat=111">Anthony Davis</A>
- Advantage: visible data used.
- Using the element title:
<A class= "tag ufusetitle" title="cheese" href="http://example.com/?cat=123">All sorts of cheese</A>
- Advantage: compatible with other proposed uses of title attributes (replacing the abbr-design-pattern).
This would require parsers to be updated, and to have an agreed hierarchy (say, rel-tag trumps element value, trumps title) in case more than one method is present. The methods used here would be backwards-compatible.
(Class names are for illustrative purposes only.)
Further reading
Related pages
- rel-tag
- rel-tag-faq
- See also rel-faq
- rel-tag advocacy - encourage others to use rel-tag.
- rel-tag-spaces - sites suitable as using as targets for rel-tag links.
The rel-tag specification is a work in progress. As additional aspects are discussed, understood, and written, they will be added. These thoughts, issues, and questions are kept in separate pages.
- rel-tag-feedback - general feedback (as opposed to specific issues).
- rel-tag-issues - specific issues with the specification.
- rel-tag-other-evidence - tagging schemas other than those used in rel-tag