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Vote Links

VoteLinks is an elemental microformat, one of several microformat open standards. We propose a set of three new values for the rev attribute of the <a> (hyperlink) tag in HTML.

The new values are “vote-for” “vote-abstain” or “vote-against”, which are mutually exclusive, and represent agreement, abstention or indifference, and disagreement respectively.

A link without an explicit vote ‘rev’ value is deemed to have value “vote-for” or “vote-abstain”, depending on the application.

Additional human-readable commentary can be added using the existing ‘title’ attribute, which most browsers show as a rollover.

Examples:

<a rev="vote-for" href="http://example.com/cheesevote"  
   title="Melt the cheese!">Do it!</a>
<a rev="vote-against" href="http://example.com/cheesevote"  
   title="Don't melt the cheese!">Don't do it!</a>