- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:54:37 +1000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
My copy of the draft (not yet on mnot.net) currently has:
<t>The relation type of a link is conveyed in the "rel"
parameter's value. The "rev" parameter has also
been used for this purpose historically by some formats, and MAY be
accommodated as a link-extension, but
its use is not encouraged nor defined by this specification.</t>
On 21/08/2009, at 5:48 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 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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Received on Thursday, 20 August 2009 21:55:27 UTC