[whatwg] Rel alternate, stylesheet and feed

Lachlan Hunt lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Wed Nov 29 22:06:46 PST 2006


Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>> The spec defines special handling for rel="alternate stylesheet", but 
>> also defines that "alternate" with type="application/atom+xml" or 
>> type="application/rss+xml" implies the "feed" relationship.  Does this 
>> represent an alternate stylesheet, a syndication feed or both?
> 
> If "alternate" and "stylesheet" are both specified, the "alternate" 
> keyword doesn't imply "feed", because "the rest of this subsection doesn't 
> apply" if it says both. So "feed" isn't implied.
> 
>> <link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="application/atom+xml" href="/feed"
>> title="Blog Entries">
>>
>> Firefox 2 [...] recognised it as a feed.

Thanks, bug filed.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362329

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Lachlan Hunt
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