On 25 Nov 2006, at 14:24, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
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.
The link element is currently defined as being able to used "In a
head element." in HTML5, in the current WD.
- Geoffrey Sneddon
<Seems I accidentally sent this just to Lachlan, not to the mailing
list. Duh. Good attempt at a first post on a mailing list.>
