- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:48:16 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > 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. Sorry, I missed that (<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#attr-link-rev>). I think it would be even better if there was a single sentence explaining what it means (or used to mean). BR, Julian
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