- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:53:53 +0200
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 05.08.2010 14:25, Julian Reschke wrote: > ... > 2) The definition of "external" is: > > "Indicates that the referenced document is not part of the same site as > the current document." > > First of all, this doesn't sound terrible useful. Where does it come from? > > But, assuming it *is* useful, why wouldn't it apply to <link>? > ... I just found <http://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-link-relations#rel-external>: "rel=external "indicates that the link is leading to a document that is not part of the site that the current document forms a part of." I believe it was first popularized by WordPress, which uses it on links left by commenters. I could not find any discussion of it in the HTML working group mailing list archives. Both its existence and its definition appear to be entirely uncontroversial." Well, not anymore ;-) If the use case actually *is* what Mark P. writes here, than it definitely overlaps with "nofollow", and is *not* what the description in the spec is about. Best regards, Julian
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