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Re: Link relation types for non-GET links

Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu> Sat, 15 August 2015 13:53 UTC

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hello klaus.

On 2015-08-15 08:16, Klaus Hartke wrote:
> It's just that HTML defines a number of syntactically different
> hypermedia controls (<a>, <img>, <form>), so a spider can understand
> whether the link is safe or not even if it does not recognize the link
> relation type.

http://dret.typepad.com/dretblog/2009/10/links-in-html.html is where 
just out of curiosity i tried to list all of the link types that are 
defined by HTML. but keep in mind that from a logical perspective, these 
are all "link relation types" (except for <link>, which supports and 
requires runtime typing): each of those elements defines a certain kind 
of relationship between the HTML page and a referenced resource, and 
spiders (and other clients) decide based on this relationship whether 
they want to follow a certain link or not.

cheers,

dret.

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