[whatwg] Helping people seaching for content filtered by license

[Julian Reschke]

Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> ...
>> and  there are a number of folks who disagree (not just us in RDFa),
>> including at least two RECs (RDFa and GRDDL).
> 
> Is this claim based on a mere comparison of the description of those 
> link relations in said specifications? Perhaps some of the disagreements 
> are merely a different wording?
> ...

As a matter of fact I don't see RDFa using @profile.

>> The point is: if you assume that @rel="foo" always means the same thing,
>> then many folks believe you're already violating the HTML spec, which
>> specifically uses @profile to modulate the meaning of @rel, and
>> sometimes via another level of indirection.
> 
> Where does nottingham draft define anything that contradicts the default 
> HTML 401 profile?  Authors will often assume that rel="foo" does means 
> the same thing wherever it appears, hence a central register is a 
> benefit so that specification writers and profile writers can know what 
> the standard semantics are.

The Web Linking draft does not override anything in HTML 4.01. It just 
states that generic link relations are a good idea, creates an IANA 
registry for them, and defines how to use them in the HTTP Link header.

That being said I *do* believe that it's an incredibly bad idea on using 
the same relation name for different things.

> ...

BR, Julian