- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:44:48 -0800
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Paul Kinlan <paulkinlan at google.com> wrote: > There isn't always a href, if left out the value action should be > launched on the current page. > > We didn't want to add additional attributes to the meta tag or link > tag just for intents, this seems to open up the flood gates for future > platform features to also extend the meta syntax, the meta element > then just becomes a dumping ground. ?If the answer when defining a new > declarative standardized platform feature is to just arbitrarily add > new attributes to the meta data element we will get to a point where > either ?we have attributes that are used in multiple contexts or use > of basic attribute name spacing such as "intent-". > > Looking at the spec[1] it appears there would still be a relatively > large change to the html5 spec to accomodate these new attributes and > conditional parsing guidelines. > > A new tag is simple, concise and encapsulates the features and > requirements of the new platform feature and gives us scope to iterate > for future versions without stepping on the toes of the other features > that might use the meta tag. Does that mean you're not interested in declaring this information in the <head> ? Adam > [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-meta-elemen > > P > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:05:37 +0100, Greg Billock <gbillock at google.com> wrote: >>> >>> The big ergonomic sticking point there is probably the |href| >>> attribute, which we envision >>> being able to do same-origin registration. Perhaps a similar <link >>> rel="intent"> tag >>> modification would be able to do that, though. Is that what you'd >>> suggest? Do you think >>> having two tags involved would be confusing? >> >> >> If there's always an href attribute you could just go for <link> instead. I think you should go for one element and just add attributes as required. And if we want to put inside <head> that would be either <meta> or <link>. >> >> >> >> -- >> Anne van Kesteren >> http://annevankesteren.nl/ > > > > > -- > Paul Kinlan > Developer Advocate @ Google for Chrome and HTML5 > G+: http://plus.ly/paul.kinlan > t: +447730517944 > tw: @Paul_Kinlan > LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulkinlan > Blog: http://paul.kinlan.me > Skype: paul.kinlan
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