Robert Sayre wrote:
On 5/4/05, fantasai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Who's to say we can't overload it a little for this case?
You are not writing the HTML 4.01 spec, you're writing an autodiscovery spec that takes advantage of the syntax *and semantics* given in HTML 4. Your specification should be consistent with HTML 4, not contradictory to it.
The autodiscovery spec is a reasonable interpretation of the *one line* definition of the 'alternate' relation. It is not contradictory.
The definition of 'alternate' is not one line long on my screen, but here's the first sentence of it:
# Alternate # Designates substitute versions for the document in which the link occurs.
-- http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.12
How is a link from the top of my homepage to my friend's weblog feed designating a "substitute version for the document in which the link occurs"?
Note that we are not arguing the semantics of the <link> element in an Atom document, but the semantics of the <link> element in an HTML document.
~fantasai
