- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:13:26 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Martin McEvoy wrote: > > Just one small question > > Why Has HTML5 dropped the rev=""[1] attribute? > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#absent-attributes We did some studies and found that the attribute was almost never used, and most of the time, when it was used, it was a typo where someone meant to write rel="" but wrote rev="". To be precise, the most commonly used value was rev="made", which is equivalent to rel="author" and thus was not a convincing use case. The second most common value was rev="stylesheet", which is meaningless and obviously meant to be rel="stylesheet". We therefore determined that authors would benefit more from the validator complaining about this attribute instead of supporting it. Anything that could be done with rev="" can be done with rel="" with an opposite keyword, so this omission should be easy to handle. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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