- From: Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:24:58 +0100
- To: Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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
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