- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:17:43 +1100
- To: Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, www-archive@w3.org
Thanks, Noah. Michael, can you get a sense of the HTML WG if they're OK with keeping the wording the same, and just adding a note referring to the HTML5 spec for HTML-specific implications? Cheers, On 08/10/2010, at 5:27 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > > On 6 Oct 2010, at 15:07, Julian Reschke wrote: > >> On 06.10.2010 15:53, Michael(tm) Smith wrote: >>> >>> Description: >>> Provides a link to a document giving the context for the current >>> document. > > I like that it is vague enough to be used on a case-by-case basis, but I don't understand why it has been reworded for this second registration. > > The original description was: > > "Refers to a parent document in a hierarchy of documents." > > This wording was chosen to fit with the other wordings: > > http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml > > Was the description reworded to match a rewording of the other related registrations? > >> Note, in <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#link-type-up>: >> >> "The up keyword may be repeated within a rel attribute to indicate the hierarchical distance from the current document to the referenced document. If it occurs only once, then the link is leading to the current document's parent; each additional occurrence of the keyword represents one further level." >> >> Related WG issue: <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/119>. > > I was aware of this definition when I made the registration request, which probably accounts for the choice of "a" instead of "the" — however, I am agnostic on the issue. -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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