[whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Nov 30 14:35:25 PST 2006


On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote:
> 
> I'd prefer basing autodiscovery on the media types and not at all on the 
> relationships. A "feed" relationship would only help finding the "living 
> resource" (similar to rel="current" in the Atom Relationship Registry) 
> if you're not already "on" it (in which case, rel="alternate" would be 
> used).
> 
> UAs would then obviously continue to support autodiscovery using 
> "alternate" all-over-the-place, this would just be a lucky side-effect; 
> and everyone would be happy.

So as far as I can tell, that's what HTML5 currently requires. Am I 
interpreting you correctly?

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