- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 22:11:47 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 13 May 2008, K?i?tof ?elechovski wrote: > > Removing @rev is harmful for Lynx because that is how it decides who the > author is. > > At any time while viewing documents within Lynx, you may use the 'c' > command to send a mail message to the owner of the current document if > the author of the document has specified ownership. (Note to authors: > if you want to assign the ownership to your document, you need to add > into HEAD section a LINK element with appropriate value for REV > attribute. Two values are recognized: owner and made (these are case > insensitive). For example, > <HEAD> > ... > <LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:user at somedomain.com"> Removing rev="" from the spec doesn't preclude Lynx still supporting it for legacy documents, and for new documents, rel=author is preferred and is trivially supportable given support for rev=made, so I don't think this is a particularly convincing argument. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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