[whatwg] WA1: rev attribute

sjoerd at w3future.com sjoerd at w3future.com
Mon Jul 18 09:38:23 PDT 2005


>    At least with |rel|, you could harvest hyperlinks and put them into a
> link toolbar. With |rev|, you're describing the relationship type of the
> current document. Therefore, I really don't see what user agents are
> supposed to do with |rev| and how they can create a useful interface
> that can exploit this attribute.

The user interface of rel and rev can be exactly the same, only rev under
the heading of "reverse".

AFAIK there is no difference between

  <a href="1.html" rel="prev">

and

  <a href="1.html" rev="next">

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Sjoerd Visscher
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