Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote:
Sjoerd Visscher wrote:
Why not support hyperlinks too?
So besides:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Main Atom feed" href="/xml/index.atom">
also:
<a rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="/xml/index.atom">Main Atom feed</a>
Most webpages already have a hyperlink to the feed, so they'd only need to add two attributes. It would be a waste to have to duplicate the information in the document head.
The intent of the head element is to indicate a feed that serves as a substitute for the page you're currently viewing.
This other case is locating all feeds linked to from a page. For that, the type attribute should be sufficient to indicate that you're linking to a feed.
No, a hyperlink with a rel attribute means the same as a link element. The HTML spec describes the rel attribute on the a element thus:
This attribute describes the relationship from the current document to the anchor specified by the href attribute. The value of this attribute is a space-separated list of link types.
-- Sjoerd Visscher http://w3future.com/weblog/
