- From: Steven Pemberton <xhtml2-issues@hades.mn.aptest.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 06:57:39 -0600 (CST)
- To: jim@jibbering.com
- Cc: www-html-editor@w3.org
> Please clarify what a user agent should do in response to mark-up such as > > <link rel="dc:source" href="urn:isbn:0140449132"> > > 22.1 says > > "User agents should enable activation of links and the retrieval of link > targets. Since link elements may have no content, information from the rel > and title attributes should be used when labelling links." > > but what does activation mean in the context of an urn: href? > > Please change the specification to remove this ambiguity. Preferably remove > the use of urn: and other href's that are not designed to be de-refrenced > from the href of a link. So an author can easily specify if a resource can > be usefully derefrenced, and a user agent can know if it's useful to provide > users with the ability to activate the link. There is nothing inherent in a urn that means it cannot be activated (or dereferenced), anymore than there is something inherent in an http: uri that means it *can* be activated. As a consequence, we have decided to leave the definition of what it means to dereference a URI to the relevant specifications. Best wishes, Steven Pemberton For the HTML Working group
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