Re: [Referrer] Adding a referrer attribute delivery mechanism

On 12 February 2015 at 17:35, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org> wrote:
> So, it doesn't matter
> whether rel=noreferrer takes precedence or we take the lower of both
> values, because both result in "none".

I actually think that given referrer=foo is newer and written with
full knowledge of the rel=noreferrer option, we could interpret <a
rel=noreferrer referrer=origin> as an intent to share the origin, but
no more than that.  A UA that doesn't support the new argument would
fail closed, but that would be intentional.

It seems like the right thing to do would be to remove rel=noreferrer
eventually, so being able to ignore it is easier than describing a
combination rule, or any rule where it takes precedence.  Both make it
harder to have it disappear.

Received on Thursday, 12 February 2015 06:54:50 UTC