+1 Simple >> Complex.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:59 PM, James Snell <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, this is something that has bugged me for quite a white... the atom:icon > and atom:logo elements are terribly underspecified as just a simple IRI. > Those these really should be link objects. What I'd like to propose is a > deprecation of those elements in favor of <link rel="icon" href="..." /> and > <link rel="image" href="..." />. The icon and image rel attributes would be > added to the registry of link relations... > > So instead of.. > > <feed> > <icon>http://.../image.jpg</icon> > ... > </feed> > > It would be... > > <feed> > <link rel="icon" href="http://.../image.jpg"; type="image/jpeg" /> > ... > </feed> > > The nice thing about this approach is that it does not actually require any > changes to the spec. The icon and image rel values would be added to the > registry and implementations would need to be modified to look for them as > an alternative to the icon and logo elements. > > Thoughts? >
![http://.../image.jpg"](http://.../image.jpg"){kind=link}