Why Doens’t Everyone Think Like This?
Posted by dminor Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:38:00 GMT
Eric Meyer has been discussing XFN described as “The goal of XFN is, quite simply, to make it possible for links to carry information about the human relationships behind the linking.” While I find this interesting, I currently don’t myself implementing XFN in the near future. What I do like about how this is setup is that the group that put this together have created something that doesn’t break HTML today, yet is completely flexible to work into any XML document. Eric writes:
not only can you add XFN values to your links, but you can do so and still have your HTML validate—see, for example, the validator report for the main page of meyerweb—because XFN uses an existing HTML attribute ( rel ) in a way that HTML itself allows. In other words, XFN enhances the Web without breaking it, very much in the spirit of Tim’s original vision of interlocking technologies that worked together to create a social medium.
Cool! We need more of this type of forethought.
