On 05/29/2008 8:08 AM, Brian Smith wrote:

> "related" should be used when you need to store a link for some
> reason and you don't care if/how it is exposed to any users along the
> way. Basically, rel="related" should almost never be used. If you
> need the UA to display some links to the user then you should put
> those links in the atom:content using (X)HTML markup to guarentee (as
> much as possible) that they show up (since not all Uas expose
> "related" links). If you don't want the UA to display the link then
> you should use something other than rel="related" because some UA's
> will expose all "related" links.

So is it fair to say that Atom link relations are designed for automated
use by Atom user agents, not for presentation to human users?

If that is the case, then I misunderstood their purpose and it seems
that it would be more productive for me to pursue definition of a new
link relation for XHTML, not Atom.

My apologies for the confusion.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/

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