* Antone Roundy <[email protected]> [2010-10-13 19:40]: > I've never been a fan of using <link> for connecting to every > sort of external entity, since it makes it impossible to write > general purpose <link> handling code (for unknown @rel values) > without ending up doing things that degrade the user > experience. But that battle has already been lost (when the > idea of reserving <link> for links intended for traversal was > rejected).
This is parallel to the URN vs URL dispute. You cannot really do this if links are typed in any generic way, ie. `rel`. Maybe it would have been worth thinking about an additional mechanism to designate links of this kind as such. But that assumes the distinction is tenable in the first place. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
