- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:15:00 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Mark Pilgrim wrote: > > This is an email followup from an IRC discussion long ago, at Ian's request. > > http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090416#l-507 > > # [23:30] <mpilgrim> test cases: > http://diveintomark.org/tmp/relalternate.html and > http://diveintomark.org/tmp/relfeed.html > # [23:30] <mpilgrim> all modern browsers support the former (except > google chrome, which has no feed autodiscovery at all) > # [23:31] <mpilgrim> firefox 3 supports rel=feed > # [23:31] <Hixie> sounds right > # [23:31] <mpilgrim> firefox 2 does not support rel=feed > # [23:32] <mpilgrim> opera 9.62 does not support rel=feed > # [23:32] <mpilgrim> safari 4 beta does not support rel=feed > # [23:32] <mpilgrim> IE8 final does not support rel=feed > > http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090518#l-32 > > # [04:45] <mpilgrim> i've completed my rel=feed research ( c.f. > http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090416#l-507 ) > # [04:46] <mpilgrim> i sampled 3 billion web pages from google's latest index > # [04:46] <mpilgrim> weeding out errors like rel='RSS 2.0 feed' and > false positives like rel='service.feed', > # [04:46] <mpilgrim> i found exactly 1 page that uses rel='feed' > according to specification and to the exclusion of any other > autodiscovery mechanism > # [04:46] <mpilgrim> http://seiji.asia/ > # [04:47] <mpilgrim> and they have a visible link on their page that > also links to their feed > # [04:48] <mpilgrim> so there would be little harm in removing > rel=feed support from the only browser that actually supports it > # [04:48] <mpilgrim> and little harm in removing it from html 5 > > To sum up: only one browser has ever implemented rel=feed, despite it > being in the draft spec for several years, and real-world usage of the > feature is miniscule. I recommend removing the section called 'Link > type "feed"' from HTML5 altogether, and redefining 'Link type > "alternate"' in a way that does not depend on rel=feed. Done. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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