Re: Anyone else watching rev=canonical?

From: Brett Bonfield <bonfield_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:17:39 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Houghton,Andrew <houghtoa_at_oclc.org> wrote:
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
>> Brett Bonfield
>>
>> However, just to be clear, rev=canonical != rel=canonical.
>>
>> They are discrete responses to distinct issues.
>
> Agreed.  Another issue with rev=canonical is that I don't believe that
> rev= is going to be supported in HTML 5.

That's correct. As a couple of the posts I pointed to mention, the
current plan isn't simply to deprecate rev (and then explain why rev
has been deprecated) but to omit it completely.

Brett
Received on Tue Apr 14 2009 - 19:21:04 EDT