Re: [syndication] Re: LINK support in Mozilla 0.95

[Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>]

Hi

On Wed 17-Oct-2001 at 09:53:18AM -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 
> It depends on where you put the LINK - if it's on the summary page
> (e.g., www.cnn.com), it's perfectly appropriate. If it's on one of
> the articles themselves (e.g., www.cnn.com/today/someNewsItem),
> definately not.

I would have thought that if the web page is _just_ a html version of the RSS
feed then alternate makes sense, if it has additional content (excluding
standard navigation elements and such stuff) then perhaps not.

At the moment I just alternate for this kind of thing:

 <link rel="alternate" media="print" type="text/html"
  href="print.html" 
  title="Printer formated version of this page." />

and it causes IE to print the alternative page when some goes to print
the document (something that mozilla perhaps should do as well but
doesn't).

And also:

<link rel="alternate stylesheet" href="tv.css" type="text/css" 
  media="tv" title="TV Style Sheet" />

to enable previewing of TV CSS in mozilla using the style sheet selection, View
- Use Style Sheet.

How about doing it like this:

<link rel="syndication" 
  href="rss100headline.rdf" type="application/xml"
  title="RSS 1.0 Headlines" hreflang="en-gb" /> 

<link rel="alternate syndication" 
 href="rss091headline.rdf" type="application/xml"
 title="RSS 0.91 Headlines" hreflang="en-gb" />

<link rel="alternate syndication"
  href="rss090headline.rdf" type="application/xml" 
  title="RSS 0.9 Headlines" hreflang="en-gb" />

This would be more in line with rel="alternate stylesheet" as well.

Chris

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