On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Martin McEvoy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@weborganics.co.uk">martin@weborganics.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am the author of numerous websites and I decide (like many people do) to place some links on my homepage a portfolio If you like.<br>
My Homepage is at : <a href="http://groovydeveloper.com/" target="_blank">http://groovydeveloper.com/</a><br>
Here is my link <a rel="author" href="<a href="http://somegroovysite.com/" target="_blank">http://somegroovysite.com/</a>">Groovy Site</a><br>
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Above Statement (In HTML4) says<br>
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<<a href="http://somegroovysite.com/" target="_blank">http://somegroovysite.com/</a>> Authored < <a href="http://groovydeveloper.com/" target="_blank">http://groovydeveloper.com/</a>><br>
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Which Is rubbish its the other way round</blockquote><div><br>Correct, it is rubbish. Why would you say that? It clearly doesn't communicate what you want, even with the older semantics. In html4 you would want either rev="author" or rel="made".<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The Same statement in HTML5 will say (because @rel is a reverse and inverse link type)<br>
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<<a href="http://somegroovysite.com/" target="_blank">http://somegroovysite.com/</a>> Authored < <a href="http://groovydeveloper.com/" target="_blank">http://groovydeveloper.com/</a>><br>
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< <a href="http://groovydeveloper.com/" target="_blank">http://groovydeveloper.com/</a>> Authored <<a href="http://somegroovysite.com/" target="_blank">http://somegroovysite.com/</a>><br>
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@rel seems to be redundant because describing the link with rel="author" doesn't actually tell you who the author of a is page you have to guess, the statement is at most only half correct and again not expressing any real semantics....</blockquote>
<div><br>You are misunderstanding quite severely. @rel still has the semantics of a forward link. rel="author" has identical meaning in html4 and html5 - it indicates that the linking page's author is represented by the linked page. The difference now is that, rather than use rev="author" for the reverse semantic (the linked page's author is represented by the linking page), you would use rel="made" (the linking page made the linked page).<br>
<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">No It doesn't Reverse and Inverse properties are key factors of any
Semantics without both @rev and @rel there is hardly any semantics at
all just a one way stream of information, which most of the time you
have to guess what the Authors intentions were.<br><br>
rel=author on the whole only relates to published documents, rel=made
relates to Documents, Music, Photos, Videos, Sunday Lunch! Literaly
anything that can be *made*</blockquote><div><br>At worst, this merely means that "author" and "made" are not antonyms. This doesn't justify @rev, it just means that you want a more general term than "author". Replace it with "creator" or "maker" or what have you.<br>
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<br>~TJ<br></div></div>