discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Sylvain ZIMMER <sylvinus AT lynucs.org>]

Andy Powell wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, snowchyld wrote:
>
>  
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> > Technorati wish to have all the tagged data as href's that 'users can click 
> > on'
> >    
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> Whether users can "see" <link rel=... links is browser specific isn't it?
> Some browsers offer functionality based on these tags (e.g. Lynx and Opera
> I think??), others don't.
>
> It's perhaps worth noting that Firefox now acts on embedded <link rel=...
> links to RSS feeds, e.g.
>
> <link href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/rss/ukoln.xml"; rel="alternate"
> type="application/rss+xml" title="UKOLN News" />
>
> I think a convincing case could be made to the Firefox development team
> (or at least some Firefox plugin developers) to display CC and other
> licenses in appropriate ways based on the kind of syntax I suggest below -
> e.g. a small clickable CC icon could be displayed at the bottom-right of
> the Firefox window?
>  
I think what you're proposing already exists :

http://yergler.net/projects/mozcc/

I don't know if it supports link rel tags, though.

Regards,