- From: Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:18:20 +0000
- To: mnot@pobox.com
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Hello,
I have been reading through:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nottingham-http-link-header-04.txt
Section 5 lists the following for link parameters:
link-param = ( ( "rel" "=" relation-types )
| ( "rev" "=" relation-types )
| ( "type" "=" type-name )
| ( "title" "=" quoted-string )
| ( "title*" "=" enc2231-string )
| ( "anchor" "=" <"> URI-Reference <"> )
| ( link-extension ) )
For situations where you're linking to an alternate language URI I think it
would be useful to include "lang" and "hreflang" in this list of predefined link
parameters, with semantics similar to HTML 4.01 @lang and @hreflang:
@lang
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#adef-lang
@hreflang
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-hreflang
I could then map a HTML 4.01 <link> element like this:
<link rel="alternate" href="index.fr" hreflang="fr" lang="fr" title="Essais">
To the following Link header:
Link: <index.fr>; rel="alternate"; hreflang="fr"; lang="fr"; title="Essais"
I realise that this would be possible with a link-extension, but given that
these two parameters are already defined in HTML 4.01, it would be nice to see
them made explicit, with data types similar to:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-langcode
Best,
--
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
Received on Thursday, 16 April 2009 16:48:54 UTC