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Using <LINK> tags in feeds or pages?



Hmmm,

In doing a little digging I came across the <link> tag.  Perhaps this 
might be an interesting way to get information about a feed into a 
web page?

The link tag is supposed to support tags for movement relative to the 
current page.  At least that's one of it's purposes.  I've included 
some links about it.

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML3.2/5.36.html
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/head/link.html

List of link rel tags:
http://fantasai.tripod.com/qref/Appendix/LinkTypes/alphindex.html
http://fantasai.tripod.com/qref/Appendix/LinkTypes/ltdef.html#meta

If we're going to advance the connection between what current browser 
support and feeds, we should probably look into what their current 
environments best support.  

If folks are going to put an [XML] button on their page, how about 
embedding some meta-data in that?  How about an HREF for the main 
feed?  And if someone's going to use it on an individual item then 
how about an HREF that points to it's XML source?

Getting folks to agree to adding something MORE to their web pages 
isn't a trivial endeavor.  We might as well have something well 
thought out.

Comments?

-Bill Kearney