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

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

I don't think the alternates have to be completely equivalent; for
example, your printed version might very well leave off the
navigation.

Cheers,



On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:35:19PM +0100, Chris Croome wrote:
> 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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