Re: Using <LINK> tags in feeds or pages?

[markpasc@mindspring.com]

Using HTML <link/> to point to syndication feeds has been discussed at 
least once [1], but I don't think anything ever came of it.


Bill Kearney wrote:
> The only downside is abusing the REL attribute on the link tag.

Well, the standard reads [2], "Authors may wish to define additional link 
types not described in this specification. If they do so, they should use a 
profile [3] to cite the conventions used to define the link types." So the 
most we could abuse rel is the self-abuse of using something without any 
user-agent support.


Aaron Swartz wrote:
> iCab supports it:

Supposedly Mozilla does now, too [4], but I'm curious how either of them 
handle unknown rels such as "syndication". From this bug [5] I'm guessing 
for Mozilla it's "not very well," at best.


[1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndication/message/2010
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-links
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#profiles
[4] http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=2042
[5] http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90966


Mark Paschal
markpasc@mindspring.com