[thelist] Usability Ideas/Suggestions
Mark Gallagher
mark at cyberfuddle.com
Fri Aug 16 09:21:00 CDT 2002
David.Cantrell at Gunter.AF.mil wrote:
>> REL = relationship of referenced page to referencing page. REV =
>> relationship of referencing page to referenced page.
>
> The examples you gave both are from the child's point of view. Just
> out of curiosity, is there a variant that gives this information from
> the parent's view? This type of semantic structure is not inherent
> in the link tag.
There's no reason why you can't have
<link rel="child" href="bar.html" type="text/html">
and
<link rev="parent" href="bar.html" type="text/html">
<snip />
> BTW Thanks for bringing this feature up. I'd thought I read this in
> an old spec years back but have never seen a real application of it.
> Still looking for one...
Great for navigation, especially if you've got a book-like site (which I
think <link>, at least Mozilla's implementation of it, is geared towards).
Currently, Mozilla and Lynx (and maybe Links, I'm not sure) support the
<link> tag[0]. Oh, and (obviously) every recently-updated Gecko-based
browser[1]. Mosaic recognises it too, but I don't think anyone uses
Mosaic anymore.
[0] Yeah, technically Opera and IE do as well as they'll display
<link>ed stylesheets. But they don't do much else!
[1] Which makes Galeon, Chimera, Mac AOL 7, Netscape 7 (and maybe 6.2),
maybe Kmeleon (latest version).
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Mark Gallagher
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