@fantasai no. rel=next prev etc all page-to-page, the only well defined interpretation. #microformats had some scoped use, from part of a page to another page (or part thereof), but it was defined only for hAtom^1 with rel=bookmark, and more loosely with rel=tag^2 across a few microformats, but nothing generic to all rel values. Lastly, experience showed that authors were confused by scoped use of rel (with the exception of rel=tag), especially with any attempt at mixing class and rel microformats, so we settled on: * class microformats^3 for anything scoped / structured * rel values^4 for page-to-page relationships, orthogonal to other markup [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom [2] http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag [3] http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2 [4] http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values

@fantasai no. rel=next prev etc all page-to-page, the only well defined interpretation.

#microformats had some scoped use, from part of a page to another page (or part thereof), but it was defined only for hAtom¹ with rel=bookmark, and more loosely with rel=tag² across a few microformats, but nothing generic to all rel values.

Lastly, experience showed that authors were confused by scoped use of rel (with the exception of rel=tag), especially with any attempt at mixing class and rel microformats, so we settled on:
* class microformats³ for anything scoped / structured
* rel values⁴ for page-to-page relationships, orthogonal to other markup

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom
[2] http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag
[3] http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2
[4] http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values