- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:06:46 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: > Sam Johnston wrote: > > ... > > Given the attribute is rarely used (and when it is it's generally abused - > > e.g. rev=canonical) I would suggest that following HTML 5's example and > > jumping straight to obsolesence is a better idea than deprecation. > > ... > > "deprecating" was the wrong term anyway; as there is no replacement (except > for defining reverse relations, and using them with "rel"). > > HMTL5 imho goes too far in not mentioning it at all. HTML5 does define behaviour for rev="", it just makes it non-conforming. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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