- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 12:08:53 -0400 ()
- To: Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Rob wrote: > After a quick read, some questions regarding LINK REV/REL attributes. > > What happened to Parent, Sibling, Child, Top, and Owns? (as in <LINK > REL=TOP HREF="index.html">) Are they deprecated? And what about > Citation, Bibiography, Footnote, etc? The W3C HTML working group chose not to include a normative set of LINK types. I could easily expand the informative section in the spec, but can't cover all LINK types. The spec does however allow you to name the namespace you are using for the LINK types using the new profile attribute on the HEAD. The profile also covers properties defined using META. The idea is to allow organizations to specify the namespace they are using so that user agents can apply the appropriate processing. There is a lot of current activity on richer ways to specify meta information which explains why this isn't a major part of the HTML 4.0 spec. > > Also, some suggestions (for LINK REL=...): > > See-Also > For documents that are related, but with no obvious hierarchy or > relationship > > Maintains > Site maintainer, as in <LINK REV=MAINTAINS > HREF="webmaster@domain.net">, not necessarily the author. All good ideas. Perhaps this list could help to recommend a smallish set of link types that are in widespread use *today*. Note that once the dust settles on the meta-info representation work, there will be plenty of opportunity to discuss appropriate conventions. It seems unwise therefore to preempt this in the HTML spec. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett phone: +44 122 578 2521 (office) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
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