Hi,
Out of now where, in about the last month, the OpenGraph Protocol has been developed by Facebook and others. It is used in support of the Facebook like widget.
Unfortunately the OpenGraph Protocol and all the software I've seen that supports the OpenGraph Protocol requires the use of invalid meta tags, such as:
<meta property="og:email" content="me@example.com" />
The invalid part being that the
meta tag has no
property attribute. In place of
property, it should use the
name attribute.
I think use of the OpenGraph Protocol is likely to spread like wildfire. There is already a wordpress plugin.
Is anyone here willing to work with me in contacting those involved, and asking them very politely, to modify the OpenGraph Protocol, or at least the supporing software, so that it will work with valid (x)HTML?
For background on the FaceBook like widget see:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph
For background on the OpenGraph Protocol, including all the implementations, see:
http://opengraphprotocol.org/
Apart from the backers of the OpenGraph Protocol itself, the implementors should also be contacted.
A suitable message to an implementor might go along the lines of:
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Could you please modify your OpenGraph implementation so that it will work with pages written in valid HTML.
An example of such a page using valid meta tags with OpenGraph data is available at:
http://www.html-tags-guide.com/
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Michael.
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