#microformats 2021-09-09

2021-09-09 UTC
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[tw2113_Slack_] here’s a good question for you smart folks. So I’m working on a client task that has me linking to an external service that’s managing a job board for them
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[tw2113_Slack_] would a rel=me count for that link from the company standpoint?
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[tantek] what do you mean by "count"? what end user result are you trying to achieve?
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[tw2113_Slack_] mostly is it an appropriate rel attribute for a company pointing to an external job board for them
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[tw2113_Slack_] I’m hunching on it being just fine, but i think my mind went to “company” vs “individual”
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[tantek] "an appropriate rel attribute for" is markup, not a end user result
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[tantek] the hunch should be, absent a specific end user result (i.e. what user visible feature will this enable?), don't bother looking for more markup to add
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[tantek] "just fine" is insufficient, it should enable useful functionality
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[KevinMarks] you do need to be careful about rel=me with non-people. We had a tricky one early on where 2 people linked to their joint company as rel=me and merged themselves from a graph point of view
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[tantek] they had no way to test the consequences. good example of why you should avoid extra markup without a specific way to verify that it's having a useful effect
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[tw2113_Slack_] i’ll leave it off based on the feedback here
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capjamesg[d] Love that rule about markup [tantek].
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[chrisaldrich]1 We talk about that idea frequently enough that it almost ought to be a tagline on the microformats site...
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[tantek] "All the markup that's functional when consumed" or something like that
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