[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10897: tag="rel" should not be used in the tag cloud, since those tags do not describe the current page

[WordPress Trac]

#10897: tag="rel" should not be used in the tag cloud, since those tags do not
describe the current page
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 Reporter:  DanielStutzbach  |       Owner:            
     Type:  defect (bug)     |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Unassigned
Component:  Template         |     Version:  2.8.4     
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:            
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 Links to tags tags that describe the current page can be marked with
 rel="tag", to give search engines an extra clue about what the current
 page is about.  The tags in the tag cloud should not be marked with
 rel="tag", since they do not necessarily describe the current page
 (effectively diluting the usefulness of the information).

 Quoting the HTML 5 spec:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/history.html#link-type-tag

 "Since it indicates that the tag applies to the current document, it would
 be inappropriate to use this keyword in the markup of a tag cloud, which
 lists the popular tag across a set of pages"

 Also see the older microformat spec:
 http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag

 Removing the rel="tag" from the tag cloud is a straightforward two-line
 change in wp_generate_tag_cloud() in category-template.php.

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