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Linking to alternate resources

From: Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 17:53:51 +0200
Message-ID: <48207F0F.6080806@w3.org>
To: Jo Rabin <jrabin@mtld.mobi>, public-bpwg-ct <public-bpwg-ct@w3.org>

Not directly connected to the "confusing" part of the linking mechanism, 
but re-reading today's minutes:

> Link element in HTML requests 
>[...] 
>    jo: exactly, it's a useful mechanism to link to more appropriate
>    versions but how can you identify what user-agents THIS version is
>    suitable for?

The mechanism being exactly the same as the one used to link to a CSS 
style sheet, user-agent cannot be used for linking to alternate 
representations, but CSS media queries should still be part of the 
equation with the possibility to define something like:
	media="handheld and (max-device-width: 200px)"

I don't think anyone uses links to alternate representations with that 
level of details for the time being though (and CSS media queries is a 
Candidate Rec, not a Rec)

François.
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