15512 2012-01-11 01:19:19 +0000 Section: Links >> Link types; Requesting that the link type "publisher" be reinstated inside the HTML5 specification. The reason is because Google has adopted this tag as a means of identifying a web site with a corresponding Google+ business page. It is 2012-02-06 23:08:04 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian julian.reschke mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 62525 0 contributor 2012-01-11 01:19:19 +0000 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: Section: Links >> Link types; Requesting that the link type "publisher" be reinstated inside the HTML5 specification. The reason is because Google has adopted this tag as a means of identifying a web site with a corresponding Google+ business page. It is used in a similar fashion as the "author" type, only it allows Google to identify a business "publisher" versus an individual "author". This is described in more detail at: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1708844 Posted from: 71.177.129.150 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 62540 1 julian.reschke 2012-01-11 09:48:02 +0000 There's a registry for link types: "Extensions to the predefined set of link types may be registered in the microformats wiki existing-rel-values page. [MFREL]" 63779 2 ian 2012-02-06 23:08:04 +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: Please use the registry