- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:48:16 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Ryan King <ryan@theryanking.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Ryan King wrote: > > html5 defines rel="contact"[1] in a way that clashes with XFN[2], which > has wide deployment on the web today. > > I suggest that rel="contact" be dropped from HTML5, since you can > accomplish the same things with the existing combination of XFN+hCard. rel=contact is the 8th most used value of rel="", according to some studies I did on large amounts of data. Is that really mostly all XFN? I've commented it out for now, pending further study. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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