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The spec doesn't say what to do with <meta http-equiv="Link"/>. The behavior required by http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/css/cascade/import/002.html does not seem to be specified by any spec, and the HTML5 spec is silent on the matter. The test passes in Mozilla and Opera at least.
Anne and Jonas have suggested that Opera and Firefox should remove support for this feature: http://www.w3.org/mid/op.vgxckiqz64w2qv@anne-van-kesterens-macbook-pro.local That sounds fine to me. But I hope that they, when they proposed the removal of this feature, also were aware that, http-equiv="link" may be used for link prefetching. Developer.Mozilla.org documets this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/link_prefetching_faq And testing shows that Opera support prefetch via http-equiv="link" as well. For consistency, it sounds reasonable that support for http-equiv="default-style" should also removed, then: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/semantics#attr-meta-http-equiv-default-style
Another benefit of dropping this is that then HTMLMetaElement does not have to implement LinkStyle.
I thought about this some more and while I initially agreed with Leif I think <meta http-equiv=default-style> offers functionality that is not available via other means. <meta http-equiv=link> you can just use <link> instead, but that is not the case for <meta http-equiv=default-style>.
FTR: <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587928>
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