Ben Adida wrote:
Julian Reschke wrote:
Ben Adida wrote:
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The registry doesn't/cannot change prior specs which specify that
@profile affects the value of @rel.
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Again: @profile does not help with disambiguation when multiple profiles
are declared. It just does not work, so pretending it does isn't helpful.
Assuming this is true, that disambiguation is not possible, what does it
matter? The point is that @profile *must* be considered by your parser
looking at @rel, so you can't just compare @rel values. Even if @profile
is imperfect, it's part of the spec and you can't ignore it.
It would be useful to not only consider what @profile may have been
intended to do years ago, but what it actually *can* do in practice.
(That would also be useful with respect to the discussion in the HTML 5 WG.)
If I follow your argument, no new relation names can be used in HTML 4,
except by using a profile. We have evidence that this is not true. For
instance, consider rel="nofollow".
Best regards, Julian
