[whatwg] A thought: <a href="..." method="post">

fantasai fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net
Fri May 6 23:48:54 PDT 2005


Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Is this perhaps a problem that is solved with rel="nofollow"?
> 
> I can see where it would be beneficial to have a profile of link
> relationship types to denote functional links.
> 
> ie
> <a href="" rel="edit nofollow admin"></a>
> to say "this is a link which is used for editing and administration,
> don't follow it".
> 
> That neatly describes the link functionality in a set of known terms,
> and avoid a lot of the mess with prefetching...

rel="nofollow" means "this link is not endorsed", not "don't follow this
link".

~fantasai



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