- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:05:50 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, James M Snell wrote: > > Over on the IETF Atom Syntax mailing list we're discussing whether or > not to pursue the autodiscovery draft that had previously been put on > the table [1] or to simply point to the HTML5 work and be done with it. > While reviewing the HTML5 draft and comparing that to the Atom > auto-discovery draft, a couple of questions came to mind. > > 1. Is the order of alternate link rels in a document significant? Good question. The draft hadn't covered that. I've now fixed the spec to say that the order is important in one respect: the first <link>, <a>, or <area> element whose rel="" attribute has the keyword "feed" (which might also be implied by rel=alternate in certain cases) is defined to be the default syndication feed for autodiscovery purposes. > 2. Are multiple alternate links with the same type attribute > considered to be equivalent regardless of where those links appear > in the document. Currently, the location of the link is irrelevant (except for the first one being the default). However, different links with different href="" attributes aren't "equivalent"; they point to different documents. They can also have different titles (title=""), languages (hreflang=""), and preferred media (media=""). I hope this helps. If you have any other feedback, or if you'd like the spec changed in any way, please let us know. I am very interested in addressing any requirements the Atom community may have. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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