pj.doland.org — PJ Doland at The Frosty Mug Revolution takes a fresh look at the 'nofollow' directive -- responsible for reducing the effectiveness of comment spam -- and comes up with another, perhaps even more sensible idea in the same spirit: The NSFW directive.
Dec 29, 2006 View in Crawl 4
dblythDec 29, 2006
Yeah, not to be the buzz-kill, but if you're in need of blocking lots of page elements because they aren't work safe, maybe you should just avoid that site.
ambushcommanderDec 29, 2006
If you read the proposal carefully, you would have noticed that the dude is not proposing a new "attribute" per-say, but another role for the standards-compliant rel attribute. Microformats has been doing this for a while now.
mike503Dec 29, 2006
yeah - why not use this in some fashion alongside ICRA...this also assumes the person who posted the link labeled it properly to begin with (i.e. CARES that people will know it's adult)this actually is an example of microformats, in a way:<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformats">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformats</a>
pjdolandDec 29, 2006
This idea is much simpler, and lacks the ICRA bureaucracy. Plus, with support in newer browsers for attribute selectors in CSS, site administrators could serve an alternate stylesheet that hides content very easily.
rusty0101Dec 29, 2006
nsfw would be the simple tag, additional tags could be added specifying why it would be nsfw, so if your company has nothing against bikini's, or topless, but can't stand thongs or full nudity, that could be qualified. Likewise if your country or company has no problem discussing violence, but can't handle affection between consenting adults, that could be handled as well.The nsfw tag would be a catch all, that whomever submits the material can set then based upon actual content other tags may apply. I would not be surprised if nsfw got applied to a lot of material that people in some companies would say, "wtf, why is that nsfw?"
diggmichiDec 29, 2006
After reading this AWESOME idea, I wrote a library that does exactly this. It took me about 3 hours.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/programming/NSFW_HTML_Attribute_JS_Library_Ready_for_Download">http://digg.com/programming/NSFW_HTML_Attribute_JS_Library_Ready_for_Download</a>
casamanDec 29, 2006
It wouldn't be a smart idea for search engines to mark content NSFW based on the backlinks the content gets.. If i would create many backlinks to a scource and mark them NSFW the scource could be hurt..
eargangDec 29, 2006
While I think the concept is genius, I think using rel is, from a semantics p.o.v., cleaner. Also, the popularity of rel (partly thanks to the aforementioned microformats) might be something you want to ride the coattails of.
masamunecyrusDec 29, 2006
@inbred:I like to code. That's why I am reading about html news, instead of reading the newspaper. >_>