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Bug 7543 - Consensus on ietf-http-wg was that repetition of relations is meaningless and we should rather use numbering (e.g. "up2"), names (e.g. "great-grandparent") or an attribute (e.g. level="3").
Summary: Consensus on ietf-http-wg was that repetition of relations is meaningless and...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/curr...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: NE, TrackerIssue
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-09-08 15:06 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:56 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-09-08 15:06:55 UTC 
Section: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#link-type-up

Comment:
Consensus on ietf-http-wg was that repetition of relations is meaningless and we should rather use numbering (e.g. "up2"), names (e.g. "great-grandparent") or an attribute (e.g. level="3").

Posted from: 78.224.125.122
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-09-22 10:36:34 UTC 
Why?
Comment 2 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 14:50:49 UTC 
This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
  http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.
Comment 3 Sam Johnston 2010-04-19 10:13:23 UTC 
My preference is for an attribute, as this is backwards compatible with agents looking for "up" while still allowing more capable software to know "how far up". If you only have one level you can only advertise one level, but if you extend this to an arbitrary number of levels then you can advertise the whole hierarchy which is useful for features like breadcrumbs.
Comment 4 Julian Reschke 2010-08-04 09:54:41 UTC 
Just noticed:

"Note: The relList IDL attribute (e.g. on the a element) does not currently represent multiple up keywords (the interface hides duplicates)."

(enough said)
Comment 5 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-08-17 18:59:31 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: No rationale provided.
Comment 6 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-09-15 09:29:36 UTC 
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/119