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

All you have to do to fix this is clearly state that 'up' can be any parent, not just a direct parent. My issue is not with having a generic and flexible relation type, but one that is failing to clearly communicate what it is.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah Slater [mailto:nslater@tumbolia.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 12:25 AM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
> Cc: Ian Hickson; HTTP Working Group
> Subject: 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

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