- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 21:36:38 +0200
- To: Chuck Letourneau <cpl@starlingweb.com>
- cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> How can we use the REL attribute of the Anchor tag to indicate purpose of a > link? E.g. > "nav" Links for site navigation > "toc" Links that are atable of contents for the page > > User Agents could create lists of links based on the REL attribute for direct > navigation. There are two different things to consider. One is defining a list of roles for document relationship like "next in print order", "toc", etc. The other is defining how to encode this relationship. We can work on the former in our WAI forum, although it could probably be handled somewhere as it is pretty pervasive (some of it is already in the HTML spec) For the second, the issue is that we have a W3C technology, RDF, that's coming along with a solution for metadata like that, and we also have attributes, such as rel, that already exists in HTML. One question is whether it's worth defining a bunch of roles without an agreed way to implement them (assuming we can't make our mind between RDF and simple/obsolete rel) and what will the UA do with either a too-modern solution or a too-old solution: maybe nothing. Since it's in the HTML spec, we could push on author and authoring tools for adding rel for LINK in the HTML head (like the W3C slidemaker tool does) and on UA for presenting them to user (like lynx does).
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