Wait, no. While this wouldn't cause much issue due to the unrecognized link type, `href` should always be a valid URL and can't be a free-form string. This is more obvious when you realize that `rel` accepts multiple link types:
A conformant agent will recognize `help` and treat this like `<link rel="help" href="architecture">`. The same goes for `<a rel="octo:octothorpes" ...>`. The correct way would be using standard-recognized elements and attributes instead:
Probably the repo is currently private. Maybe they forgot to make it public?
kaycebasques
> Backlinks are links that go … back. Pages within a Ring can see which other pages linked to them.
I'm reading up on web history. I believe this was one of Ted Nelson's criticisms of the web (and reasons why Xanadu was supposedly better), right?
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michaelmior
This looks interesting but I was disappointed to see that registration requires polluting the root domain with a TXT record. Would be nice if this could be at a subdomain like _octothorpe-verify or something like that.
audiodude
The page mentions "rings" but only links to register on the one on the same domain. Are other rings just "theoretically possible if someone hosts the app" or are they already here?
I built this in like 2003. https://web.archive.org/web/20030212162207/http://reversible...
It didn’t work, so I built del.icio.us instead.
There’s a link on that page that says you can check out some open source code.
https://github.com/stucco-software/octothorp.es
But this link gives a 404.
Probably the repo is currently private. Maybe they forgot to make it public?
> Backlinks are links that go … back. Pages within a Ring can see which other pages linked to them.
I'm reading up on web history. I believe this was one of Ted Nelson's criticisms of the web (and reasons why Xanadu was supposedly better), right?
This looks interesting but I was disappointed to see that registration requires polluting the root domain with a TXT record. Would be nice if this could be at a subdomain like _octothorpe-verify or something like that.
The page mentions "rings" but only links to register on the one on the same domain. Are other rings just "theoretically possible if someone hosts the app" or are they already here?