- From: Benjamin D. Smedberg <bsmedberg@covad.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:59:23 -0400
- To: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- CC: Bill Talcott <invisibill@invisibill.net>, www-style@w3.org
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> So, my alternative. I saw the technique elsewhere, and have started >> doing it on my pages. I use rel="external" in external hyperlinks. >> This supplies information about the link, stating that it's external. > > That information is already available from the link itself and therefore > does not have to be presented (again) in an additional attribute. A browser cannot know whether gmail.google.com and google.com are "external" to each other, and they are on the same domain. It's not uncommon to have https:// and http:// sites "internal" to eachother also, but most browser would consider them separate "websites". I personally like the rel="external" idea. I even imagine further useful relationships, such as "help" and "sidebar" which could significantly reduce dependence on script to open undecorated windows. And these "rel" values are not incompatible with a CSS target-new property... CSS selectors could even be part of the UA stylesheet to implement these "rel" values. --BDS
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