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    <bug>
          <bug_id>8096</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2009-10-27 22:56:21 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>&lt;link&gt;&apos;s &quot;type&quot; attribute should be allowed to appear multiple times and/or should allow for a space separated list of advertised types, such that clients can request them via the Accept: header.</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2010-10-04 14:57:35 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML WG</product>
          <component>pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>Other</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>other</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>NEEDSINFO</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#default-media</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords>NE</keywords>
          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>LC</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>contributor</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>ian</cc>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-admin</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-wg-issue-tracking</cc>
    
    <cc>samj</cc>
          
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    <commentid>29141</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="">contributor</who>
    <bug_when>2009-10-27 22:56:21 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#default-media

Comment:
&lt;link&gt;&apos;s &quot;type&quot; attribute should be allowed to appear multiple times and/or should allow for a space separated list of advertised types, such that clients can request them via the Accept: header.

Posted from: 84.75.177.17</thetext>
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    <commentid>30156</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2009-12-15 23:41:22 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>EDITOR&apos;S RESPONSE: This is an Editor&apos;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: I don&apos;t understand. Could you elaborate? What&apos;s the use case? What would the UA processing requirements be? What problem does it solve?</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>30159</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Sam Johnston">samj</who>
    <bug_when>2009-12-15 23:47:31 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Linked resources may have multiple representations and allowing for &quot;type&quot; to be multi-valued would allows servers to advertise, and clients to discover, the available representations (which could be specified in subsequent requests by way of the Accept: header).</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>30161</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="Sam Johnston">samj</who>
    <bug_when>2009-12-15 23:52:36 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>*** Bug 8095 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>30363</commentid>
    <comment_count>4</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2010-01-04 09:27:11 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>EDITOR&apos;S RESPONSE: This is an Editor&apos;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: Could you describe a situation in which a user today would run into a problem, and where this proposal solves that problem? I&apos;m having trouble understanding the proposal.</thetext>
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