Re: [link-relations] NEW APP DATA

[Ian Hickson <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > >
> > > 2) You could rephrase the application flags in a more generic way 
> > > (as discussed last November).
> > 
> > It's unclear what this would mean. I don't think making things 
> > "generic" makes sense here. We're trying to solve a very specific 
> > problem for this application (HTML), for which we need specific 
> > data... how would we make this generic?
> 
> I explained that already. Define behavior for user agents (as discussed 
> last year), not HTML-specific validity constraints.

The proposal does both. Are you saying I should file separate 
registrations for whether something is a hyperlink or an external resource 
link, and whether something is allowed on <link> or <a>/<area>? I suppose 
we could do that but that would just make the interface with the HTML spec 
a bit more complicated, and I don't understand how that would help anyone. 
Are other languages also interested in the distinction between hyperlinks 
and external resource links? I assumed this was just an HTML issue.


> > Surely we don't want to update HTML each time there's a change to the 
> > registry? Or is that what you're saying we should do? I don't 
> > understand.
> 
> What I'm saying is that "noreferrer" should be allowed on <a>/<area> and 
> <link>; as far as I can tell, your proposal disallows it for <link> 
> (consistent with HTML5, so this is a bug in HTML5), and also disallows 
> it for <a>/<area> (which seems to be a bug in your registration).

I don't understand how it affects noreferrer. That keyword isn't listed in 
the registry and isn't in the proposal as far as I can tell.


At this point I'm unsure how to proceed. Is the registration request 
denied? Should I just send the request again but listing the keywords that 
are not allowed rather than the keywords that are hyperlinks, and with the 
default switched around? I don't really understand this process.

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