5 messages in com.googlegroups.social-graph-apiRe: <link rel="me" ... > and other pe...
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Martin Atkins02 Feb 2008 02:29 
Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)02 Feb 2008 17:53 
Martin Atkins03 Feb 2008 03:41 
NickLothian07 Mar 2008 03:04 
Danny Ayers07 Mar 2008 04:40 
Subject:Re: <link rel="me" ... > and other perversions
From:NickLothian (nick@gmail.com)
Date:03/07/2008 03:04:17 AM
List:com.googlegroups.social-graph-api

On Feb 3, 9:42 pm, Martin Atkins <m.@degeneration.co.uk> wrote:

Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google) wrote:

Hi Martin,

Link elements aren't currently supported, but we'll be expanding support for them so that they'll show up in the API.

However, you may want to check out http://microformats.org/wiki/faq#Q._Given_that_Google_now_looks_at_hi... which discourages the use of "rel" on <link> elements to mark up XFN data (well, microformat data in general).

While I can see that being a legitimate concern for some things, really LINK elements are only invisible as long as no-one processes them. For example, <link rel="next" ...> and friends where "invisible" for a long time until Opera and Firefox added special support for them.[1] They are useful for including extra metadata that would otherwise distract from the content of the page.

RSS Autodiscovery links are another good example of this. I think link elements are perfect for annotating pages with social graph data when it doesn't make sense to display that information in visible elements