If you ever wondered why we had rel attribute editing in the links manager, XFN is why. Dev blog post about it. Any thoughts on this? Who'll be the first to put it on their blog?
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I certainly am interested in this. I've been working with a community of folks that are primarily fans of a little band from Texas [Houston, actually, Matt ;)], and I've been thinking about building a php application for linking folks together.
I think that the concept's pretty doggone interesting, and I'd be involved purely just for the fun factor. -
OK. I am using:
rel='acquaintance' in 3 of the links on my site. What change does that make. Or am I missing the point... -
NuclearMoose
Posted 5 years ago #XFN has my vote! BTW, thanks for posting this, because up until now, I haven't had time to figure out what the REL field was all about in the the Links Manager! LOL!
Now I know, and I like it! It makes total sense to do something like that. In fact, I think I'm gonna update all of my links accordingly!
Craig. -
I just finished updating all links in my link manager as appropriate. That was a pain, but doing it once means that you never have to do it again. :)
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chrisjdavis
Posted 5 years ago #I am now using this on my site as well. I am also taking advantage of the super cool CSS 2.1 hack. I think this is a good start to build more community between us.
I would be interested in more applications of this technology, as well as ideas for implementation and roll-out. -
Posted 5 years ago #Jesuit,
Which CSS 2.1 hack are you referring to?
Craig. -
Thanks everybody!
It's one of those things that takes about 10 minutes when you first do it but after that it's a breeze. -
Posted 5 years ago #Jesuit,
Thanks for the explanation! It's a great help.
Craig. -
Posted 5 years ago #NuclearMoose: No problem, I enjoy helping with the stuff I actually know something about.
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Matt:
I saw on some of the discussion about it all that there's some discussion about a "me" variable. This would work for me, personally, seeing as I have a couple sites.
Also, if the rel attribute in the Link Manager is really to be used for this, might not a drop-down box be applicable, with the ability to select multiple options in the box? Obviously, this damages flexibility from other rel attributes, though. -
You know what's funny is a week or two before we released Tantek proposed a "me" value and we discussed ourselves out of it. The plan though is to take the feedback from version 1 and see how people are using it and incorporate the most popular and most effective suggestions into 2.
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Are there plans to have a central place for comments, or are you three going to try to aggregate them as best you can?
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We're going to have a blog eventually (powered by WP of course) where we point to people who post about XFN on their blog or site.
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Wicked cool. :)
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seraph
Posted 5 years ago #"woah. I have a relational web of friends now"
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I am on the XFN Friendly User page! I will do it more responsibly now. Never knew, it meant so much to the developers. :O)
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Who do we have to bribe to be on there? ;)
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for me it was a welcome surprise. considering i only had few of the links worth XFNing... :)
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Thinking on what Jesuit posted about using CSS2 techniques ... I'm mulling adding buttons [though square rather than your standard ubiqutous rectangular buttons] to note the relationship types.
If I can come up with something moderately pleasing, I'll share. -
Since it's probably not clear unless you stare at the CSS a while: I was generating A, F, and M buttons on the fly, using green as the background for the A and F [the relationship buttons] and gray for the M [the physical buttons]. I had cribbed up a sheet that proposed blue for the professional, khaki for the geographical, white for the familial, and red for the romantic.
I guess I could conceivably come up with CSS to match each possible set of rel attribute, but the other issue with that is convention of the generation of the rel keywords--you'd need to be consistent about order to make it work.
I'll scratch my chin some more. -
GFM, I've run into this problem before. What I hope to do is build a small PHP app that lets you enter what stylings you want and then it iterates and creates the CSS for all possible combinations.
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Well, I don't have any big issues with creating the combinatorics [crap, I spent too much time in probability and statistics back in college], but that's going to blow the size of your stylesheet up something fierce, and my stylesheet would be specific to the way that I've ordered the XFN-ish rel attributes.
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I just checked in an adaption of the XFN Creator integrated with the link manager into the CVS.
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Posted 5 years ago #I just went XFN crazy today on my blog. I love the concept as it makes the Internet more RELevant between actual people.
Great stuff, gentlemen.
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Posted 5 years ago #@Geof,
What if you created classes for each with the CSS?
a.acquaintance[rel~="acquaintance"]:before {
content: "A";
border:1px solid;
border-color:#FC9 #630 #330 #F96;
padding:0 3px;
font:bold 1em 'Courier New';
color:#FFF;
background:rgb(0,179,71);
text-decoration:none;
margin: 0 5px 0 0;
I don't know if this would work, but maybe it's worth a try. :)
Craig. -
It possibly could work, but I fear that you'll again run into the same problem I had before. It's something to consider after I get back from the holidays.
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