The NSFW HTML Attribute

phaln writes "Over at The Frosty Mug Revolution, PJ Doland makes a compelling case for a new HTML attribute in the spirit of the highly-regarded 'nofollow' attribute promoted by Google — the NSFW attribute (rel='nsfw'). His original idea has been refined and expanded by positive comments from readers, resulting in a semantic solution to the issue he raises in the original post. From the article: 'Content creators can apply the attribute to paragraph tags, div tags, or any other block-level element. Doing so will indicate that the enclosed content is not safe for work. Visitors will be able to configure their browsers to block display of just the content enclosed by the flagged block-level element. This isn't about censorship. It is about making us all less likely to accidentally click on a goatse.cx link when our boss is standing behind us. It is also about making us feel more comfortable posting possibly objectionable content by giving visitors a means of easily filtering that content.'"

Comments

I propose a slew of such tags

[Anonymous Coward]

nsbb: Not Safe Before Breakfast
nsbc: Not Safe Before Coffee
nsbl: Not Safe Before Lunch
nsfc: Not Safe in Female Company
nspt: Not Safe to Print on a Tee
nswc: Not Safe While drinking Coffee
nswe: Not Safe While Eating
wcwd: Warning Chick With a Dick
dne: Do Not Eat

Re:I propose a slew of such tags

[slughead]

nsbb: Not Safe Before Breakfast
nsbc: Not Safe Before Coffee
nsbl: Not Safe Before Lunch
nsfc: Not Safe in Female Company
nspt: Not Safe to Print on a Tee
nswc: Not Safe While drinking Coffee
nswe: Not Safe While Eating
wcwd: Warning Chick With a D**k
dne: Do Not Eat

They need a WCWD tag at stileproject.com

No amount of therapy will heal my fractured mind.

this wont help me any

[JeanBaptiste]

my boss _is_ the goatse guy =(

Re:this wont help me any

[Anonymous Coward]

You work for a huge asshole too? Join the club.

WTF

[jolyonr]

Much of the content I see on the web would be better tagged with a 'WTF' tag.

Jolyon

Re:WTF

[jolyonr]

WTF!

My deepest thanks

[AutopsyReport]

In the spirit of helping those of us at work to avoid inappropriate websites, thank you kindly for linking to goatse on the front page!

Re:Good idea - No, bad idea.

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice troll though. Looks like you snagged a few moderators.

Too bad they don't have a "Not Safe For Moderation" tag.

Re:The trolls...

[Xiph1980]

Yes, that is a very important error debunking my entire point made....

Re:It's never about censorship when it CAN be.

[lawpoop]

"What would a HACKED variant of this technology be capable of?"

I don't know, but I was unable to read this article after it was tagged 'NSFW'!