XHTML Friends

I’ve noticed a few odd things about certain sites while I’ve been developing XHTML Friends. I think this is the site with the longest title:

http://www.xhtmlfriends.net/xfn/page/http://www.vikingkarwur.com

XHTML Friends (or so it seems) now correctly reads “me” links and associates sites by author. It will take a while for it to crawl all the extra info it needs to get this properly up to date though.

Be my guest and have a look though :)

Well I think I’ve got it sorted so all pages of the same person can be aggregated properly. Unfortunately since my internet access at “home” is down at the moment I haven’t be able to test it properly so I’m not uploading it yet.

Just a couple of notes. The page based info will still be available. At the moment the site trusts everything it finds (so if you link to Google with a ‘me’ attribute it will believe you). I also need to make it follow a site’s internal links to find links pages and so forth (but that will mean resolving relative URLs.. ack).

Wordpress seemed to be not updating my .htaccess properly but not telling me. Which is why none of the permalinks work. It’s funny, I was about to comment that none of the new visitors to XHTML Friends had made their way over here. Of course they probably did and just couldn’t comment…

Thanks to Ryan for pointing out the complete failure of all the internal links on the site…

XHTML friends suddenly had a lot a of traffic… Not sure where from though. But when I checked today the number of sites added jumped from 900 to 1100 and the number of queued sites went from 200 to 1000! I’m making it crawl them all now.

I think the most useful feature for helping propagate XFN would be a list of sites with incoming links but no outgoing links. i.e. sites that should add XFN attributes to their links :)

Of course the graphics should also actually display different relationships and stuff but that’s just prettyness :P

I added some nifty (and I mean nifty) Javascript to XHTML Friends and it bloody worked! It works in FireFox and IE!

I think http://brownab1.miniserver.com/xfn/page/http://photomatt.net is the most dramatic example.

Wohoo! I’ve just “finished” the XFN site. Go take a look :) XHTML Friends