[thelist] rel="bookmark" - should the links be relative?

Dunstan Orchard dunstan at 1976design.com
Wed Oct 1 14:18:50 CDT 2003


> > Dunstan wrote:
> 
> > Is it wrong to do this:
> > 
> > <a href="http://www.1976design.com/blog/archive/2003/09/" rel="bookmark"
> > title="A permalink for September 2003">September</a>
> > 
> > Should the url be relative?
> > E.g.:
> > 
> > <a href="/blog/archive/2003/09/" rel="bookmark" title="A permalink for
> > September 2003">September</a>
> 
> Makes little difference. I could be slightly quicker to have relative urls
> as you need not query the name servers to find you page. We are talking
> milliseconds though.
>  
> Mike Karthauser

Ah, sorry, I thought the 'rel' stood for 'relative', hence the question.
Turns out the 'rel' stands for 'related'.

Silly me.

Thanks Mike.

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