- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:45:17 -0700
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:52:01 -0700, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> I'd suggest not to pretend that everything is a URI. HTML5 does allow >> URIs (if that's a concern) as tokens as the only requirement is that a >> token consists of at least one character and no whitespace characters. > > URIs give you the infrastructure for disambiguating relation names > without a central registry. Some consider this a feature. They are also quite lengthy for something that in the general case only has to be a few characters. > Again, there's no need to centrally register a relation name, as it can > be a URI. I think that in most cases you want something shorter than that. (I'd be fine with saying that anything that matches the URI syntax does not need to be registered on the wiki.) Also, it seems better if the Link HTTP header just defers its semantics to HTML. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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