Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote:
fantasai wrote:

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)

I think "first" here should not be taken as chronological, but as foremost. This would make it consistent with the second sentence:

"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.

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

No offense, but with all the tripod ads, I would have much preferred a link to the "Hypertext links in HTML" draft [1].

Sorry.

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

Not quite everything. Some of the values (like "start") are not covered in that draft.

~fantasai



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