- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:09:20 +0100
- To: "Phil Archer" <phil@philarcher.org>
- Cc: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, "Atom Syntax" <atom-syntax@imc.org>, www-tag@w3.org, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:50:09 +0100, Phil Archer <phil@philarcher.org> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> Also, I definitely do not want to start having to implement support >> for http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/stylesheet besides just >> stylesheet. (Not for the Link HTTP header or for the HTML elements.) >> That's just additional complexity for no gain and will only lead to >> bugs and differences among browsers. > > There shouldn't be any need for UAs to resolve tokens given as values > for @rel as absolute URIs and no one's suggesting that UAs should > actually make an HTTP request of any kind to iana.org every time there's > a link to a stylesheet. It's the person minting the new relationship > type that needs to check. What it means is that if you create a link > (HTML or HTTP) and use a @rel type 'foo' that gives a 404 from > http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/foo then you really shouldn't > expect UAs to do anything sensible with it. > > Whether a UA chooses to actually implement support for a registered @rel > type remains very much up to the UA developer of course. The concern is that besides supporting stylesheet (and it's case variants) we'd also have to support http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/stylesheet meaning the same thing. And thus also http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/alternate and the special behavior you get when both (stylesheet and alternate) are specified. We can map http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/stylesheet to stylesheet and such first, but I don't think adding another layer of complexity is justified. (I'm not at all concerned about UAs having to fetch such URIs, as any such proposal would be stillborn.) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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