- From: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@bryant-greene.name>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:54:58 +1200
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: Peter Kupfer <peter.kupfer@sbcglobal.net>, www-html@w3.org
Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> That's perfectly standards compliant, and Googlebot obeys that, as well >> as several other major spiders AFAIK. > > It is not standards compliant at all. It's a proprietary extension that > just happens to pass DTD based validation. nofollow was discussed quite > extensively on this list when Google introduced it and the vast majority > of this community rejected it. Well, according to the relevant standard[1]: "Authors may wish to define additional link types not described in this specification." I don't see how it isn't compliant, but feel free to clarify things for me. Wasn't aware that the robot still followed the link though, perhaps they should have given it a more descriptive name... Jasper [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links
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