Re: [whatwg] Removing @rev
On 14 May 2008, at 12:11 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008, Křištof Želechovski wrote: Removing @rev is harmful for Lynx because that is how it decides who the author is. Removing rev= from the spec doesn't preclude Lynx still supporting it for legacy documents, and for new documents, rel=author is preferred and is trivially supportable given support for rev=made, so I don't think this is a particularly convincing argument. For what it's worth, I always press 'c' before going hunting for a contact address. It usually doesn't work, but that's life I guess. Ian: would it be too much to have the spec say that @rev is valid if and only if its value is made or owner? That way I can continue supporting older versions of lynx until people have updated to a version supporting rel=author I generally prefer lynx over links, w3m and such when I'm ssh'd into another machine, so I don't know much about them, but if they also support @rev then that would be more reason to keep it in with these fixed values. — Nicholas. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [whatwg] Removing @rev
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Nicholas Shanks wrote: For what it's worth, I always press 'c' before going hunting for a contact address. It usually doesn't work, but that's life I guess. Ian: would it be too much to have the spec say that @rev is valid if and only if its value is made or owner? That way I can continue supporting older versions of lynx until people have updated to a version supporting rel=author Well HTML5 is far from being ready, I recommend using HTML4 for now and getting Lynx to support rel=author in advance of HTML5 coming out. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
Re: [whatwg] Removing @rev
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: I thought the rev attribute was being added back? (Someone... I can't remember who... came on the Microformats mailing list, a while ago, and said something to that effect.) I have no plans to, evidence showed it was causing authors all kinds of problems, and had no practical benefits. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
Re: [whatwg] Removing @rev
Getting suport from Lynx is the easy part; the hard part is to get the supporting Lynx to all those BBS out there. This is very much different from the personal browser the user can control. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Hickson Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:02 PM To: Nicholas Shanks Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [whatwg] Removing @rev On Thu, 15 May 2008, Nicholas Shanks wrote: For what it's worth, I always press 'c' before going hunting for a contact address. It usually doesn't work, but that's life I guess. Ian: would it be too much to have the spec say that @rev is valid if and only if its value is made or owner? That way I can continue supporting older versions of lynx until people have updated to a version supporting rel=author Well HTML5 is far from being ready, I recommend using HTML4 for now and getting Lynx to support rel=author in advance of HTML5 coming out. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
