[whatwg] <INCLUDE> and links with @rel=embed

• From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:42:43 +0000
• Message-ID: <AANLkTi=WJa9vLK7k23ROFsRxfSZO1yYS_g7sUdECqJ58@mail.gmail.com>

>> An UA can support the scheme used without supporting the <source>
>> element. If <A> was used, they just had to support <A> and the scheme.
>
> It's still not clear to me what problem this would solve. I see what it
> would do, but why would we want that?
>
Backwards-compat. It's so UAs that don't support <source> can still
grasp some semantical information from the element.

Received on Saturday, 11 December 2010 14:42:43 UTC