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<span class="h-card">[[User:Tantek|Tantek Çelik]]</span> (Editor) | |||
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<dfn style="font-style:normal;font-weight:bold">rel-author</dfn> is for linking from an article or post (e.g. marked up with [[hAtom]]) to a page or site representing its author. rel-author is one of several open [[microformats|microformat]] standards suitable for embedding data in HTML/HTML5, and Atom/RSS/XHTML or other XML. | |||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
rel="author" is for relating an article or post to a page or site representing its author, typically to give them credit for their work (or portions of it, like books, articles, blog posts etc). | '''<code>rel="author"</code>''' is for relating an article or post to a page or site representing its author, typically to give them credit for their work (or portions of it, like books, articles, blog posts etc). | ||
E.g. a page or a post written by Erin could contain a link like: | E.g. a page or a post written by a person "Erin Smith" could contain a link like: | ||
<source lang=html4strict> | <source lang=html4strict> | ||
<a href="http://erin.example.com/" rel="author">Erin Smith</a> | <a href="http://erin.example.com/" rel="author">Erin Smith</a> | ||
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== see also == | == see also == | ||
* [[rel-author-issues]] | |||
* [[hAtom]] | |||
* [[hNews]] | |||
* [[rel-faq]] | * [[rel-faq]] | ||
* [[rel-me]] | |||
* [[existing-rel-values]] | * [[existing-rel-values]] | ||
Revision as of 00:15, 31 July 2012
<entry-title>rel author</entry-title> Tantek Çelik (Editor)
rel-author is for linking from an article or post (e.g. marked up with hAtom) to a page or site representing its author. rel-author is one of several open microformat standards suitable for embedding data in HTML/HTML5, and Atom/RSS/XHTML or other XML.
Summary
rel="author" is for relating an article or post to a page or site representing its author, typically to give them credit for their work (or portions of it, like books, articles, blog posts etc).
E.g. a page or a post written by a person "Erin Smith" could contain a link like:
<a href="http://erin.example.com/" rel="author">Erin Smith</a>
The rel="author" attribute indicates that the destination of the link represents the author of the current page (or post).
Implementations
This section is informative.
An interesting rel="author" implementation set of examples is brought up by Google in a video posted on Youtube:
- Authorship markup video and the respective implementation procedure.
extensions
query parameter alternative
Google has proposed an alternate mechanism for specifying rel=author on sites/CMSs that don't permit authors to specify the rel attribute, using a query parameter added to the URL instead. e.g. the above example with query parameter:
<a href="http://erin.example.com/?rel=author">Erin Smith</a>
This technique is explained in the following video:
- Authorship markup using URL parameters video and the new implementation procedure with the help of Google Profile (and hopefully, this type of implementation can be used on any other personal BIO page of respective author).
query param issues
- While I understand the motivation here, this is not a good idea. There will definitely be someone who has ?rel= as an actual query param meaning something in their app, and this will just break things. Singpolyma 17:56, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
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