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Bug 12225 - Drop rel=tag. It doesn't seem to be used and doesn't seem to do anything useful.
Summary: Drop rel=tag. It doesn't seem to be used and doesn't seem to do anything useful.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-03-02 20:02 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:04 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-03-02 20:02:16 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/links.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#link-type-tag

Comment:
Drop rel=tag. It doesn't seem to be used and doesn't seem to do anything
useful.

Posted from: 85.227.154.141
User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01
Comment 1 Philip Jägenstedt 2011-03-02 21:45:18 UTC 
It's used in at least WordPress link clouds and might to be how Technorati and such get the categories for a post. I haven't checked, though.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-05-05 21:26:17 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: 

http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag suggests there is some use, so I'm tentatively WONTFIXing this.

Cc'ing tantek, though: you wrote the rel-tag wiki page, is it worth keeping this or should we drop it? If we should drop it, please reopen the bug.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:04:40 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1