Todays quiz - rel attribute
I would like to use the rel attribute for links that are related to a document. Would you use "related" as the value for that or would you use something else?
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March 12th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
There’s no “related” option in the link types specified in (x)HTML (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links).
I think none of the above link types suites your dilemma, I would skip the rel-attribute and maybe go for a nice description in the title-attribute instead.
OT: and there’s no “no-follow” option in the linktypes either.
Cheers
March 12th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I looked at that page. So you´re saying that rel values are invalid except the one you you´re linking to?
March 12th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
I would say that, take a look at the optional attributes on http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp
And the WHATWG is more specific in that area:
The type of link indicated (the relationship) is given by the value of the rel attribute, which must be present, and must have a value that is an unordered set of space-separated tokens. The allowed values and their meanings are defined in a later section. If the rel attribute is absent, or if the value used is not allowed according to the definitions in this specification, then the element does not define a link.
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#rel
Cheers
March 12th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
After a discussion with Emil Stenström ( http://www.friendlybit.com ). I came to the conclusion that the relation between documents should be defined with the rel attribute using the link-types as values, and if a custom link-type is used then a profile to cite the conventions should be used in the head element.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#idx-link-2 http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-links http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-profile
Cheers.
March 12th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
icaaq, Your link to the specification of HTML 4.01 that say: “Authors may wish to define additional link types not described in this specification. If they do so, they should use a profile to cite the conventions used to define the link types. Please see the profile attribute of the HEAD element for more details.” It is a bit harder to find information for XHTML for me though… But if the rel-discussion is for this particular site, then I would guess XHTML Transitional probably works the same way. Besides, you are already using the XFN profile… But the question itself is tricky… If I would look only on the predefined values, it’s quite hard to find a sufficient value. I thought maybe “Appendix” would work if you either reference text from that page or something like that. But I really don’t know. It feels like those predefined values only handle links on and to your site and not links to others. So maybe it’s better to reference the “relatedness” in text or a list of links related to the page.
March 12th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Ah, I wrote my message in response to the earlier posts of icaaq; now that it has been posted I see he already has brought up what I responded to his messages (i.e. the use of profiles etc).