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 theauthor is.
Removing rev="" from the spec doesn't preclude Lynx still supporting it for legacy documents, and for new documents, rel=author is preferred andis 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.
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