- From: Martin McEvoy <martin@weborganics.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:35:29 +0000
Hello Ian, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Martin McEvoy wrote: > >>> The second most common value was rev="stylesheet", which is >>> meaningless and obviously meant to be rel="stylesheet". >>> >> And that was the basis of the whatwg decision to drop rev? >> > > Yes. > Was this the study you based your decisions on? http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/linkrels.html > > >> (I am not criticizing just trying to understand it) surely all it needed >> was to define some rev values (the same as rel) and people will start >> using rev correctly? >> > > That's backwards -- looking for a problem to fit the solution, not looking > for a solution to fit the problem No not really because If you look at the anyalasis(link above) made in 2005 rev=made (9th) is used more than, rel start, search, help, top, up, author and a whole lot of other link relationships that have made their way into HTML5, It doesn't make any sense? If you have a more up to date study on link relationships, please can I have a link? Best Wishes -- Martin McEvoy http://weborganics.co.uk/
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