Andreas Sewe wrote:
Too bad the values used are inconsistent with XHTML rel values, though, but then again I probably suffer from syntactic hypersensitivity. ;-)
The value was "prev" initially, but some people expressed a preference for "previous" and I figured it wasn't worth another month of arguing. We already had enough problems fighting about which direction the links were supposed to point and what to call current/feed/subscribe. At that stage I was thinking (and still think) the easiest solution would just be to check for any variation of text and follow whatever direction it is pointing.
Also the OpenSearch docs had gone with "previous" and were claiming a pending IETF registration at the time. That may have had something to do with it too.
Regards James
