RE: Last Call: draft-nottingham-http-link-header (Web Linking) to Proposed Standard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Nottingham [mailto:mnot@mnot.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:38 PM
> 
> On 30/08/2009, at 12:23 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> >> On 31/07/2009, at 10:20 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Comparing relation types case-sensitively (e.g. as in 4.2 Extension
> >>> Relation Types) is incompatible with HTML's processing of rel=""; I
> >>> would like to request that all relations always be case-
> insensitive.
> >>
> >> Is that specific to HTML5? How does HTML5 process rel?
> >
> > All versions of HTML have been case-insensitive throughout their
> > rel=""
> > procesing, as far as I can tell.
> 
> How do other people feel about changing extension relation types to be
> compared case-insensitively? It's certainly weird to compare URIs in
> this fashion, but AFAICT this won't break anything as long as authors
> are aware of it.

Works for me.

EHL

Received on Thursday, 17 September 2009 00:02:22 UTC