On 1/19/06, John Panzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not unreasonable to link to the overall feed for the entire blog > from this page, but it's a bit unreasonable to say that the feed is an > 'alternate' for the current page -- it's a superset of the current page, > at best. It's also not unreasonable to want to have a way to find an > individual Atom entry associated with this page. This would intuitively > seem to be a reasonable 'alternate' since it contains the same > information in a different format.
I agree with you. But I don't want to change the document. There are lots of other strings we could use to describe new capabilities, and the advantages of continually re-using the string "alternate" are pretty slim... are there any? An alternate link with a feedish media type means "associated feed", and all of the running code on the planet agrees with me. We can either innovate in the WG, or finish in a month or so. I know I prefer the latter. HTML link relations don't require a standards group to add new ones, so people who want to do something can publish them, and they can go code it. There are lots of open source browsers. But, I could be in the minority. Which WG members think we should work on exciting new HTML link relations? -- Robert Sayre "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
