Hi Ed, (Remember to use the HTML Standard, located at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#link-type-bookmark, not any forks of it.)
Right now the bookmark link relation has a specific purpose, as you can read in the spec: > The bookmark keyword gives a permalink for the nearest ancestor article > element of the linking element in question, or of the section the linking > element is most closely associated with, if there are no ancestor article > elements. Your proposal is essentially to give it an entirely separate meaning when used in the context of the <link> element, but that's not usually how we share link relations between the different elements: cf. alternate, author, help, license, next, etc. At least, that is how I understand; I'm having a hard time distinguishing what "identifier" is for in practice, and in particular why it is different than "canonical". -----Original Message----- From: whatwg [mailto:whatwg-boun...@lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Ed Summers Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2017 21:07 To: wha...@whatwg.org Subject: [whatwg] rel=bookmark Hi all, I was wondering if anyone can provide any information, or a pointer to previous discussion, about why the bookmark link relation can't be used with the <link> element [1]. The topic has come up recently on the IETF link-relations discussion list [2] where a new link relation has been proposed to encourage persistent linking [3]. The proposed 'identifier' relation seems to closely resemble the idea of a permalink (a persistent link) that can be found in the definition of bookmark. If bookmark allowed use with the <link> element then I think there would be less of a demonstrated need for the new 'identifier' link relation. Thanks for any information you can provide. I apologize if I'm restarting a conversation that has already happened. //Ed [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#link-type-bookmark [2] https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/link-relations/current/msg00670.html [3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vandesompel-identifier/
