- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:43:00 +0000
Martin McEvoy writes: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Martin McEvoy wrote: > > > > > (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? There's a difference between adding an attribute and adding to the set of values defined for an attribute; given rel's existence, the cost of adding start, up, etc is quite possibly less than of adding rev. There's also the misuse to consider. If, say, rel=up is barely used but when it is used it's generally used correctly then it's benign, and not causing any harm. Significant rev misuse has been identified; its existence is confusing people into writing something they don't mean. Smylers
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