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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>How do you intend to deal with "duplicates" ?
Because that would require Authors to sign up in some sort of online
database, and submit their Articles, blog posts, or whatever through that.
Something which most likely wont even bother to do in the first
place.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Above is about the only way to make absolutly sure,
that the Author is real, and not some spammer copying articles from another
website, or something entirely different.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>This however created another problem, because you
cant allow two Authors by the same name. That would require some sort of
numbering, people generally don't bother to type in numeric IDs when searching
for something, unless they are "nerds". That defeats the search
related purposes of the Author element right there. It would however
still be a help to screen readers, given the developers would support it.
And it would be less complicated then microformats. Most web-designers don't
even know about Microformats yet, let alone how to use them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Finally most Authors are using some sort of Alias,
its just a part of their online marketing. It would be really smart to make
sure the chosen Alias is unique, and not in use by anyone else. This will allow
people to easily find stuff you wrote online, simply by searching on your Alias
in Google.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Some helpful commands would be to quote the name
you are searching for. And in other cases simply put a plus in front of the
name, since google behaves idiotic sometimes, by seperating single words (using
a plus in front of the string avoids this problem).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>BlueBoden - Jacob Kristensen</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>From: "Ian Hickson" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch"><FONT size=2 face=Arial>ian@hixie.ch</FONT></A><FONT
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>To: "Samer Ziadeh" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:samerziadeh@gmail.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>samerziadeh@gmail.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Cc: <</FONT><A
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:19
AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Subject: Re: [html5] Author of a quote - how to
mark up?</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT size=2
face=Arial>> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Samer Ziadeh wrote:<BR>>><BR>>>
Sorry, it could be used for different use cases, for example if someone
<BR>>> wants to search for a blog post by a certain authors. Like there
are <BR>>> many blogs that have mutliple authors, like tutsplus for
example has <BR>>> different authors. Let's say you wanna read some of the
works of this <BR>>> author John Doe, you would do a search on Google for
example <BR>>> "author:John+Doe", and Google in that case would've already
implemented <BR>>> the convention of picking up author tags. I can see it
being useful.<BR>> <BR>> But that would also bring up blogs that just
happen to quote that person, <BR>> rather than just blogs they've written,
no?<BR>> <BR>> Is Google interested in implementing such a feature? Do
they think that an <BR>> element to do this is a better solution than
whatever mechanism they use <BR>> now for, for example, determining what date
a page is about?<BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> Ian
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