Talking to Jeremy at the WSG Microformats thingamajing yesterday and to Drew and Ed in the office today, I thought it'll be a good idea to implement prev and next as attribute values to microformats.
As you may be aware, a rel of prev and next on LINK elements of the documents indicated a document connection, for example when the page is part of an overall paper. If you envision a web page as a piece of paper, the LINK element is the staples. The cool thing about the prev and next values is that Firefox pre-caches these pages, too. Opera shows this navigation as a toolbar. As MSIE doesn't do squat with it I published a script when I was young and needed the money about it - http://alistapart.com/articles/dynanav. Now, in terms of Microformats these two attributes could have several applications: - They could indicate that your blog post is a follow-up to an older one, when you didn't want to update the other one - They could indicate a relationship with other blogs and their posts (like a meme going round) - They could indicate a kind of version controlling, if you for example write a JavaScript that is a newer and improved version of another developers's code (Wahey! Another getElementsByClassName()!) These links could be followed by a scanner tool and allow you to keep up-to-date on the progression of the meme, make sure people can also read the older blog posts or go to the other permutations of the same script. Thoughts? cheers Chris _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
