There has been several emails here and there about the difficulties of creating tag spaces and that we should change the rel-tag spec.
I completely disagree. Most of the issues stem from issues in blogging software, server software or hosting restrictions. All of these issues are out of the scope of the rel-tag spec. 1) you do NOT have to link to a tagspace on your own server. No matter what your setup maybe, you can ALWAYS use <a> and link to wikipedia, flickr or other tagspace... that is never broken. 2) while i understand a given server setup might have limitations, that's not a microformats problem, that is your problem. I would love to have my host have the latest, greatest version of PHP technology. If they don't i don't go complain to PHP and ask them to back-port functionality to an earlier version. I buck it up and either move hosts, pay for the better service or co-locate my own box. It is silly to think that it is a problem with the specification. I am open to dicussing the rel-tag spec, but the current tagspace/tag is fairly well intrenched in the wild and has not had any problems, so i don't see an need to change the rel-tag spec just because one implementation of blogging software can't get it right. The better approach is to lobby the software/server folks to fix their implementation, or you can show your distain by switching vendors - not by trying to fix the spec by including a broken implementation. -brian -- brian suda http://suda.co.uk _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
