- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:02:03 +1100
Mark Baker wrote: > "If the alternate keyword is used with the type attribute set to the > value application/rss+xml or the value application/atom+xml, then the > user agent must treat the link as it would if it had the feed keyword > specified as well." > -- http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#link-type > > I believe this in error. Atom, at least (I expect this also holds for > RSS), is useful for representing more things than just feeds... > > In addition, the media type on link is non-authoritative, meaning that > feed-semantics would be inferred before it was even ascertained that > the would-be representation was actually an Atom or RSS document. But it's based on how autodiscovery already works in UAs at the moment. The following is already recognised as a feed: <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="/feed"> We can't redefine it in an incompatible way without breaking a lot of pages that already use that for autodiscovery. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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