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Re: deprecate icon and logo elements?

Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> Mon, 25 October 2010 20:09 UTC

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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:01:19 +0200
From: Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: deprecate icon and logo elements?
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* Antone Roundy <antone@geckotribe.com> [2010-10-13 19:40]:
> I've never been a fan of using <link> for connecting to every
> sort of external entity, since it makes it impossible to write
> general purpose <link> handling code (for unknown @rel values)
> without ending up doing things that degrade the user
> experience. But that battle has already been lost (when the
> idea of reserving <link> for links intended for traversal was
> rejected).

This is parallel to the URN vs URL dispute. You cannot really do
this if links are typed in any generic way, ie. `rel`. Maybe it
would have been worth thinking about an additional mechanism to
designate links of this kind as such. But that assumes the
distinction is tenable in the first place.

Regards,
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Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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