12222 2011-03-02 19:54:41 +0000 Drop rel=external. It doesn't do anything anywhere. Pages that use it mostly use it as a scripting hook to inject target=_blank to get around validation. 2011-08-04 05:35:36 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED DUPLICATE 11181 http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#link-type-external P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ayg ian julian.reschke mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 46191 0 contributor 2011-03-02 19:54:41 +0000 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-external Comment: Drop rel=external. It doesn't do anything anywhere. Pages that use it mostly use it as a scripting hook to inject target=_blank to get around validation. 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 46195 1 julian.reschke 2011-03-02 20:08:58 +0000 Yes. Please go ahead. 48108 2 ian 2011-05-05 21:33:13 +0000 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: People use it for styling external links differently than internal links. 48124 3 zcorpan 2011-05-05 22:56:08 +0000 Citation needed. http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=%5C%5Brel%7E%3F%3D%28%22%7C%27%29external+lang%3Acss&btnG=Search+Code&hl=en&as_package=&as_lang=&as_filename=&as_class=&as_function=&as_license=&as_case= shows 30 matches for \[rel~?=("|')external lang:css which is close to nothing. In comparison \.external finds 2,400 and \[href\^=("|')?http lang:css finds 549. An attribute selector works and doesn't need to clutter the markup, and if the author wants to annotate the markup for external links for styling, a class selector has wider support than an attribute selector (works in IE6). 48198 4 julian.reschke 2011-05-06 19:30:27 +0000 This might be a duplicate of of 11181, which has been raised as http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/153 49407 5 ian 2011-06-09 23:00:59 +0000 Attribute selectors on href="" don't work in large deployments where a site spans multiple domains. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11181 *** 54042 6 mike 2011-08-04 05:35:36 +0000 mass-move component to LC1