Actually, for the form "application/atom+xml;type=entry" it's more likely that browsers will completely ignore the type param as they do currently.
- James fantasai wrote: > [snip] > That means rel="feed" won't be implied on an Atom Entry document whether > the > new MIME type syntax is chosen to be > application/atom.entry+xml > or > application/atom+xml;type=entry > > It also won't be implied on an Atom feed document if the syntax > application/atom+xml;type=feed > or > application/atom+xml;type=archive > is used, as was suggested earlier. This gives us a way to say > <link rel="alternate" href="[..]" type="[atom]"> > without implying > <link rel="alternate feed" href="[..]" type="[atom]"> > and without dropping the 'type' attribute entirely (which was the other > solution pointed out on the whatwg list). > > ~fantasai > >