- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:30:33 +1100
- To: Andy Mabbett <andy_mabbett@birmingham.gov.uk>
- CC: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Andy Mabbett wrote: >>> <link rel="home" href="http://www.example.com/index.htm"> >>> <link rel="search" href="http://www.example.com/search.htm"> > >> I agree with the concept, but I don't agree with using the <link> > element. > > Why on Earth not (and that *is * the concept, BTW)? As I saw it, the concept was the use of the rel attributes to provide the semantics, not specifically the use of the <link> element. The <a> element should be used here instead because there's usually always a link to the homepage using an <a> somewhere on the page, so you may as well use that. Also, <link> is often invisible metadata (without the widely unused link toolbars), and so should generally be avoided in favour of <a> where possible. > If, for example, the author has used <link rel="home"> then they have, de > facto, specified the home page, in relation to the page being viewed. How is that functionally different from <a rel="home">? > Why should three not be an easy way for a keyboard user to reach that page? There should be, but why does it have to use link? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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