Re: [Bug 12222] New: Drop rel=external. It doesn't do anything anywhere. Pages that use it mostly use it as a scripting hook to inject target=_blank to get around validation.

This would be stupid to drop it for that reason, in that case, you would 
also drop class element because anyone could script the same way to add 
targent_blank with any class.

Now, you would then claim that the difference with class element is that 
this one is useful, well, rel="external" is useful, it's already used to 
signify the link leads to an external link with some CSS; this is not 
directly useful but it is indeed.

Received on Thursday, 3 April 2014 07:12:58 UTC