#tommorrisas for "one's position or route between pages" - that sounds suspiciously like statefulness, which is kind of anathema to HTTP. ;)
#JonathanNealright, like what you might use with a <nav> to specify which link is current, or which links contain the current page, or what the state of certain links might be.
#JonathanNealtommorris: it sounded like a breadcrumb to me.
#tommorrisso, rel=self on the link to the current page
#tommorrisif there's some kind of next/prev ordering, you can use rel="next" and rel="prev"
#tommorriswhat do you mean by the "state of certain links"?
#tommorristantek: so, there's some overlap. in the openstreetmap world, there's a tool called OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine) which does driving directions. it exports as GPX. I'll look at the markup and XML they use
#tantekJonathanNeal - almost no one uses up or down
#tommorrisI don't know the structure of driving direction GPX (as I haven't yet passed my driving test, I've never attempted to use OSRM)
#tommorrisbut the point of it is you can download the directions onto a GPS device
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#JonathanNealwhen you've worked hard to understand something you are building for the web, but you never fully get it, so you research it, and finally, months later, you come across a website that claims to have an example of how to do it right … and it's the one you originally wrote.
#tantekJonathanNeal - I think with the development of microformats2 - we can propose a very simple breadcrumbs microformat - much simpler than existing solutions.
#tantekHTML5 normatively references the microformats wiki existing-rel-values page for rel values
#JonathanNealSo, are glossary and index synonymous then.
#JonathanNealMaybe history answers this. Traditionally, a glossary is an alphabetical list of terms and their definitions, while an index is a list of topics in alphabetical order with page numbers
#JonathanNeal"home" defines itself, and I would like to clarify it without removing any intended ambiguity. Current it is "indicates that the [referenced document] is the homepage of the site in which the current page appears."
#tantekok JonathanNeal, if you think h-breadcrumb looks good, try it in a few pages and see how it works with your markup
#tantekthen we can try microformats2 parsers on those pages and see how they do
#JonathanNealI will. I'm working on navigation presently, but first, I'm almost done clarifying some of these definitions that use their own keywords.
#JonathanNeal"home" typically means "introduction" and "top level", in the current microformats definition it says "[home] can be combined with 'alternate' to indicate for example a feed for the site of the current page". "site" emphasises its "top level"-ness.
#tantekright, "home alternate" means an alternative link for the home/site - e.g. a feed for the site, rather than a feed for the page.
#JonathanNealSo, would it be best to define "home" sympathetic to both, as in "Refers to the introductory, top level document for the current document." ?
#JonathanNealThis way it satisfies the popular definition of home page as well as its recommended current usage.
#JonathanNealIf it matters, there is no rel="introduction"
#tantekJonathanNeal - do you think there's an expectation for breadcrumb links that if you do go "up" a level, that at that level, there's a link to the current page?
#JonathanNealnot necessarily, in the case of search results.
#tantekwhen would search results ever have a breadcrumb trail?
#JonathanNealconceeded, a breadcrumb usually reflects a kind of global navigation
#JonathanNealeven if you have multiple, custom navigation menus, like WordPress and Drupal both offer.
#tanteklike if I have just one <a class="h-breadcrumb" href="foo"> on a page, then on page "foo" I'd expect it link to the current page in the content or in a list etc. - some way to go back down the path.
#gavincTrying to edit a factually wrong part of just a W3C document that just got published, and just in the status section. It is amazing how much "You can't do that" one gets
#gavincwith implementor hat on I have the most sympathy... except it's WRONG. With Editor hat on, how the heck did that get into the document in the first place?! With AC hat on... I PAY FOR THIS?!
#tantekgavinc - next time, make the errata of your W3C document/spec link to the W3C wiki and just edit it there ;)
#JonathanNealtantek: I do want to make those edits, because they would be helpful to anyone writing html that follows those link relations. However, I wanted to give them one voice in a fork, and not live, so we could discuss the changes in easy comparison.