fantasai wrote: > > Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote: > >> fantasai wrote: >> >> An excellent point. Perhaps these should use rel="home" :) >> >> <link rel="home" type="application/atom+xml" href="/xml/feed.atom"> > > ... > >> >> The value of rel, if present, will vary based on relation >> * the feed for *this* page - rel="alternate" >> * the feed for main feed for this blog, in general - rel="home" >> * other feeds the author reads or recommends - rel="suggested" >> * any other feeds linked to for any reason at all - no rel, just the >> type and href >> >> Is this acceptable? I'm not completely happy with "home" and "suggested" >> because they're not specified as link types in the HTML specs [1]. >> Sadly, it seems the HTML authors didn't consider these cases. "home" >> seems to be an informal standard. Close matches in the HTML list are >> "index", "contents", and "start". All of these are inaccurate, but I >> think "contents" is the best fit. > > > Actually, I think "start" is the best fit. The main feed is often not a > table of contents to the entire weblog, but something partial. It is, > however, the "starting point of the collection".
Actually, I disagree with start because of the first sentence in the HTML spec: "Refers to the first document in a collection of documents." This indicates that start should point to the first post in a weblog. end would be the most recent (not that end exists in the HTML spec) "This link type tells search engines which document is considered by the author to be the starting point of the collection." This is a completely different meaning and I'm not sure why it's bundled with the first. According to this, start pointing to the homepage is fine. The end or last would be the most recent (not that the HTML specs have an end or last rel) > > BTW, you might want to take a look at > > http://fantasai.tripod.com/qref/Appendix/LinkTypes/ltdef.html > http://fantasai.tripod.com/qref/Appendix/LinkTypes/alphindex.html > > ~fantasai No offense, but with all the tripod ads, I would have much preferred a link to the "Hypertext links in HTML" draft [1]. Section four is what I want. It's not indexed alphabetically and doesn't combine other documents, but it's the covers everything pretty well. [1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-html-relrev-00.txt -Nikolas 'Atrus'
