- From: Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 10:16:28 -0700
Hello, On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Nicholas Shanks <contact at nickshanks.com> wrote: > On 14 May 2008, at 12:11 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > 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. >>> >> > 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. >> > > For what it's worth, I always press 'c' before going hunting for a contact > address. It usually doesn't work, but that's life I guess. > > Ian: would it be too much to have the spec say that @rev is valid if and > only if its value is "made" or "owner"? > That way I can continue supporting older versions of lynx until people have > updated to a version supporting rel=author > > I generally prefer lynx over links, w3m and such when I'm ssh'd into > another machine, so I don't know much about them, but if they also support > @rev then that would be more reason to keep it in with these fixed values. > I thought the "rev" attribute was being added back? (Someone... I can't remember who... came on the Microformats mailing list, a while ago, and said something to that effect.) -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080515/a1c34123/attachment.htm>
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