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

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:09:41AM -0700, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
> > This is arguably a good thing.
>
> Ambiguous is not a good thing when it comes to link relations. If the client
> cannot figure out what the document author intended, things tend to break.

I think that depends heavily on the application of the technology. The Web is
traditionally a very "loose" environment, where UAs have spent decades figuring
out what authors have meant using reasonably good heuristics. So within that
context, I think that a bit of built in ambiguity promotes flexibility.

Best,

-- 
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater

Received on Monday, 31 August 2009 07:25:40 UTC