On May 4, 2005, at 09:16, Mark Pilgrim wrote:
On 5/4/05, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wroteNo you don't. rel='license' and rel='nofollow' have been deployable without a profile. You just release running code that hard-codes rel='feed' and, boom, no profile needed.
Then I'm confused as to why you can't just release running code that hard-codes rel="alternate". You know, like people have already done.
Sure you can. ("Can" in the sense that it is possible.)
However, when other things are equal, I think misusing an existing relation (feed usually is not a proper alternate representation) is worse than specifying a new one without all the profile fluff.
Still, I am well aware that the other things are not equal in this case (ie. there is deployed code), which is why I was not arguing in favor of rel='feed' per se, but pointing out that the particular reasoning against it did not hold water, IMO.
-- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
