- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:37:29 +0000 (UTC)
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, David Singer wrote: > > A formal registry is a place where you can go to find out what is > actually happening Very few of the Web-related registries fit this criteria. For example, the Microformats registry has "pingback" in it; the rel="" registry does not (and the application was rejected, despite the keyword being in very wide use). The MIME types registry still doesn't have image/svg+xml, despite it being a ten-year-old type. Formal registries, at least as implemented so far for the Web, have been a disaster in terms of how well they reflect reality. The microformats registry is far more up to date than the link relations registry. There's no reason we shouldn't consider it the official place to look to see what a link relation's spec is, or to ensure that we aren't overlapping with someone else when we invent a new type. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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