- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 07:20:04 +0200
- To: public-whatwg@w3.org, "Ed Summers" <ehs@pobox.com>
On Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:05:05 +0200, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone provide any information, or a pointer to previous discussion, > about why the bookmark link type can't be used with the <link> element > [1]? > > The topic has come up recently on the IETF link-relations discussion > list [2] where a new link relation has been proposed to encourage > persistent linking [3]. The proposed 'identifier' relation seems to > closely resemble the idea of a permalink (a persistent link) that can be > found in the definition of bookmark. If bookmark allowed for use with > the <link> element then I think there would be less of a demonstrated > need for the new 'identifier' link relation. > > Thanks for any information you can provide. I apologize if I'm > restarting a conversation that has already happened. > > //Ed > > [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#link-type-bookmark > [2] > https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/link-relations/current/msg00670.html > [3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vandesompel-identifier/ Please see https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2899 GitHub issues is the preferred place for technical discussion. cheers -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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