Robin Blandford has an interesting proposal for a new HTML tag linked to the Next brower button. Though Rowan comments with a Firefox plugin solution I still it's a terrific idea and should be baked into the markup.
Regardless of whether or not the idea has any legs I love coming across lateral thinking like this. Our lives are full of examples where we do things as we do just because they were always done that way. It takes an entrepreneurial mind to ask why and to seek superior alternatives.
October 19, 2006
hmm, I tried to post this on Robin's blog, but the antispam subsystem hated me :(
There's already a tag to do this; the LINK tag, 'rel="next"'.
btw *your* antispam subsystem hates me too -- 'This blog does not allow HTML comments.' wtf is it on about? ;)
Posted by: Justin | October 19, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Damn, Justin got there first!
Some browsers do support LINK completely. Older versions of Mozilla supported it, but support was taken out for some bizarre reason. Opera still supports it. IE doesn't support it at all. Not sure about Safari/Konqueror. I'd check Konqueror, but it'd mean building KDE and Konq and installing them on my machine: not something I exactly feel like doing.
Posted by: Keith Gaughan | October 19, 2006 at 08:38 PM
You don't have to do it with LINK. Just put rel="next" on any tag with the href attribute (A, LINK etc.). It's all about the microformats (I say while at a microformats event!).
Posted by: Tom Morris | October 19, 2006 at 08:56 PM
Ha! All of us trying to sound knowledgeable :) It got mine too. I want a dump of Robin's spam filter to see who got there first!
Posted by: Rowan | October 20, 2006 at 08:51 AM
The official winner is...
Justin 2143pm GMT
Then Rowan 0007 GMT + 1 day
Then Keith 2035 GMT + 1 day
There you go!
Posted by: Robin | October 20, 2006 at 04:05 PM
Oooooh, Justin gets in there by over 2hrs. I graciously accept defeat :)
Posted by: Rowan | October 20, 2006 at 04:29 PM