[whatwg] rel-index comments

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Nov 5 08:53:25 PST 2007


On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> 
> I'd expect an index to be an alphabetical list, like:
> 
>         <http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/a>
> 
> rather than list of chapters.
> 
> Think of the index at the back of a book, as opposed to the "contents" 
> page at the front.

Indeed, we're stretching the definition of 'index' a bit here. I think 
that's ok, though; I don't see what problem would be solved by 
distinguishing the toc page from the index page from the home page, etc.

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