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The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'ISSUE-124: Allow noreferrer and nofollow on <link> - Straw Poll for Objections' (HTML Working Group) for Toby Inkster. --------------------------------- Objections to the Change Proposal to allow noreferror and nofollow on "link" ---- We have a Change Proposal to allow noreferror and nofollow on <link>. If you have strong objections to adopting this Change Proposal, please state your objections below. Keep in mind, you must actually state an objection, not merely cite someone else. If you feel that your objection has already been adequately addressed by someone else, then it is not necessary to repeat it. Objections: No objection per se, though I think that the "nofollow" link type is poorly named, and is probably too esoteric to include in the HTML5 spec at all - it could be moved out of the HTML5 spec and into whatever registry the HTMLWG settles on for extension link types. --------------------------------- Objections to the Change Proposal to disallow noreferror and nofollow on "link" ---- We have a Change Proposal to disallow noreferror and nofollow on <link>. Keep in mind, you must actually state an objection, not merely cite someone else. If you feel that your objection has already been adequately addressed by someone else, then it is not necessary to repeat it. Objections: The RDFa and microdata specs don't differentiate between the rel attribute on LINK and on other elements. It seems silly and unnecessarily inconsistent to allow <a href="noreferer next">...</a> to create a link to the next page which will not send an HTTP Referer header, and will possibly be included as part of a browser's navigation toolbar (or in Opera for the Fast Forward feature), while not allowing the corresponding <link> to do the same. For nofollow there are perhaps fewer use cases for including them in <link> elements, but there also seems to be no harm in allowing them to appear there. The advantages of allowing it to appear on <link> would be the reduction of differences between rel on different elements, making HTML easier for authors, and simplifying writing HTML tutorials. These answers were last modified on 27 February 2011 at 14:00:34 U.T.C. by Toby Inkster Answers to this questionnaire can be set and changed at http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/issue-124-objection-poll/ until 2011-02-28. Regards, The Automatic WBS Mailer
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