Hello Matthew,<br><br>That clears things up a bit.<br><br>But, if the intent is to really get rid of confusion then.... There's actually 2 things I noticed confuse people.<br><br>#1: That the label you pick for the "rel" (or "rev") needs to be a noun. (I do understand why... at least I think I do... so that you can use the same label in the "class" attribute. But it makes things difficult for some people.)
<br><br>#2: That "rel" (and "rev") represent a relation between the two. Often people seem to want to "classify" what's at the end of the "href". (Instead of specifying a relation.) Perhaps a new attribute is needed. Perhaps "hrefclass".
<br><br><br>See ya<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Raymond</b> <<a href="mailto:mattraymond@earthlink.net">mattraymond@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You make the argument that people might be using |rev| intentionally<br>for some values and the the statistical method used by Goggle doesn't<br>make that determination. Let's look at the two most common uses.<br><br> If you look at |rev="made"|, the most common use of |rev|, it's
<br>pretty clear that the use is intentional. However, |rev="made"| is<br>pretty much equivalent to |rel="author"|, which is nearly as common, so<br>the impact of eliminating |rev="made"| is minimal. If you look at the
<br>following link, note that |rev="made"| is the only use of |rev|<br>mentioned, by the way:<br><br><a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/head/link.html">http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/head/link.html
</a><br><br> The second most common usage is |rev="stylesheet"|. Since CSS style<br>sheets don't use HTML, let alone <a> and <link>, we can safely assume<br>that this is, in fact, either the result of confusion by the author or a
<br>spelling type, and as you pointed out, a typo is unlikely. This really<br>does suggest a genuine problem with people not understanding the<br>difference between |rel| and |rev|, since |rel="stylesheet"| is the most
<br>common use of |rel|. I really wish we could see more data on that, though.<br><br> One of the problems with |rev| is that it's supposed to share values<br>with |rel|, but in reality many of these values are either have narrow
<br>use cases for |rev| or are completely unusable, such as "stylesheet" and<br>"icon". In my estimation, this will eventually result in a proliferation<br>of values that favor a specific value. In fact, that's what we've seen,
<br>since most values are |rel|-centric.<br><br>Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:<br>> For example, I tend to use rev-author, rev-comment, and rev-tag quite<br>> [a lot]. These aren't typos; these are intentional. And I do understand
<br>> what each means and am using them properly.<br><br> None of the values you mention are defined in HTML 4.01, and<br>considering you are the one asking for |rev| to be included in "HTML 5",<br>I don't think you can consider yourself a typical author.
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