On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:03:38 +0200, Phil Archer <parcher@icra.org> wrote: > In brief: the Protocol for Web Description Resources is about providing > small amounts of metadata about a lot of resources for use cases ranging > from trustmarks through child protection to licensing. Such descriptions > are as applicable to things like images and movies as they are HTML > documents - hence the need for an HTTP-based linking mechanism and the > availability of something very much like HTML Profile so we can define > what rel="powder" means. (As an aside, we'll be arguing for the > retention of Profile which seems to be under threat at the moment in > HTML 5 & XHTML 2 but that's a different matter). Why not simply register "powder" as a rel-value? Using profile for that only makes it more complicated for authors and processing software. (The WHATWG has put up a wiki page where you can register a rel value http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RelExtensions as experiment.) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>Received on Wednesday, 17 October 2007 09:14:28 GMT
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