Comments on: The Danger of Losing Context with XFN http://www.eakes.org/36/the-danger-of-losing-context-with-xfn/ Software Engineering, Social Technology, Product Design Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:07:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Max Krueger http://www.eakes.org/36/the-danger-of-losing-context-with-xfn/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Max Krueger Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:43:43 +0000 http://www.eakes.org/?p=36#comment-5 What if rather than putting the XFN entries directly into the html page, a seprate html file is kept as your blogroll file and either linked to using the link rel=, or using a meta-tag in the header? Only problem I see is compatability with existing XFN apps. I think a meta-tag is the way to go. What if rather than putting the XFN entries directly into the html page, a seprate html file is kept as your blogroll file and either linked to using the link rel=, or using a meta-tag in the header? Only problem I see is compatability with existing XFN apps. I think a meta-tag is the way to go.

]]> By: Steve Sloan http://www.eakes.org/36/the-danger-of-losing-context-with-xfn/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Steve Sloan Fri, 07 Jan 2005 02:31:53 +0000 http://www.eakes.org/?p=36#comment-4 I think you are right, it is very possible that it might happen and did, I did it! XFN is still a new concept to a lot of folks and is not even supported by a lot of HTML creation programs. It wasn't till I saw a post about the danger of doing what you say that I started doing research on XFN, went back and started using XFN on my own posts. Oh yes, I fixed my prior posts! Anyway I started using Nvu for creating blog posts as it supports XFN. ~Steve I think you are right, it is very possible that it might happen and did, I did it!
XFN is still a new concept to a lot of folks and is not even supported by a lot of HTML creation programs. It wasn’t till I saw a post about the danger of doing what you say that I started doing research on XFN, went back and started using XFN on my own posts. Oh yes, I fixed my prior posts!
Anyway I started using Nvu for creating blog posts as it supports XFN.
~Steve

]]> By: codestream http://www.eakes.org/36/the-danger-of-losing-context-with-xfn/comment-page-1/#comment-6 codestream Sat, 01 Jan 2005 04:33:48 +0000 http://www.eakes.org/?p=36#comment-6 <strong>The Semantic Context of XFN</strong> Michael Eakes raises the issue of XFN context. The problem he identifies is that someone might copy a set of XFN-enabled links from another blog and put them into their own, without realising that the links contained semantic information. It's... The Semantic Context of XFN

Michael Eakes raises the issue of XFN context. The problem he identifies is that someone might copy a set of XFN-enabled links from another blog and put them into their own, without realising that the links contained semantic information. It’s…

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