Tse Shing Chi (Franklin/Whale) wrote:
I think that only <link> should be used. All feeds linked by <a>
should be ignored during the process of autodiscovery.
Why?
Autodiscovery should be limited to <head>...</head>. If an author
wants his feeds to be discovered automatically by UAs, he should use
<link>. Providing additional or same feed links using <a> is only for
linking and does not affect the autodiscovery. Scanning whole
document is not necessary and increases the complexity.
Ah, but this works!
<html>
<head>
<title>Feed Autodiscovery</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>... really long body ...</p>
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="/feed">
</body>
</html>
I tested that with both HTML and XHTML and both tests worked in Firefox,
Opera and Safari. IE7 was the only broswer that appeared to do what you
suggest, at least to some degree. But given that IE7 is in the minority
in this case, and doesn't handle link elements in the body like other
browsers (the way it's being defined in HTML5), I consider that a bug in IE.
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Lachlan Hunt
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