[whatwg] Re: rel="script"

[Ian Hickson]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Simon Pieters wrote:
> > >
> > > I was wondering about rel="script". It could work like 
> > > rel="stylesheet", and we could possibly introduce rel="alternate 
> > > script" but I'm not sure how that would work.
> > 
> > What would be the advantage over <script src="">?
> 
> What's the advantage of rel="stylesheet" over <style>@import 
> "";</style>?

You can do alternate stylesheets with <link> but not with <style>.


> > > A use case could be for javascript links, for instance:
> > >
> > > |<a rel="script" href="javascript:alert('pass')">foo</a>
> > 
> > What's the advantage? It's obvious it is a javascript link, because of 
> > the scheme used, no?
> 
> It's just metadata. I don't know if there's a real advantage though.

I'm reluctant to add stuff to the spec that doesn't have a clear 
advantage.

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