Their reasoning for not fixing this does not stand up. "Because we've always done it this way." "Because dashes are prettier." Wow. They sound like a lot of southern baptists I know.
+1 for fixing. It's time for change. Yes we can. (sorry). -- Kary Rogers http://www.GoodCommitment.tv On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:32 PM, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you may recall I posted to the wordpress trac requesting they fix > their rel-tag links so that they are compliant with the rel=tag > specification when linking to mutli-word-tags. Wordpress currently > does this wrong, and causes posts to get indexed incorrectly. > > If you tag a post as "christmas video" it will not appear in searches > for "christmas video" in technorati (for example). Blogger posts will > ... but not Wordpress posts. Wordpress posts get tagged as > "christmas-video" ... and entirely different tag and thus excluded > from the conversation browsing / discovery that happens via tags. > This of course is an issue not only with technorati, but with any > site/service that consumes rel=tags ... since anyone who consumes > rel=tags surely expects the rel=tags to be compliant with the rel=tag > specification. > > For some reason there are those on wordpress trac that seem opposed to > this fix. I cannot imagine why. > > I may have to stop caring about this for a while as I tend to get to > overly emotionally invested in such things ... and that's not healthy. > But if there are any techie people out there who can clearly speak to > the reasons wordpress should present its rel=tags according to the > standard, and the problems associated with not doing so - perhaps you > can add to the conversation here: > > http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5964 > > Do we still have microformats people on this list? Anyone? > > Thanks in advance, > - Dave > > -- > http://www.DavidMeade.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
