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Bug 13274 - Misleading <link> example
Summary: Misleading <link> example
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview...
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Reported: 2011-07-15 20:22 UTC by Julian Reschke
Modified: 2011-08-14 06:53 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Julian Reschke 2011-07-15 20:22:29 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Julian Reschke

        

        
        

        
          2011-07-15 20:24:50 UTC
        

      






This example:

"For example, the following link element creates two hyperlinks (to the same page):

<link rel="author license" href="/about">

The two links created by this element are one whose semantic is that the target page has information about the current page's author, and one whose semantic is that the target page has information regarding the license under which the current page is provided."

is kind of misleading, as the referenced page by definition doesn't qualify as description of the author and the license. Maybe fragments of it do, though.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 2
        

        
          Michael[tm] Smith

        

        
        

        
          2011-08-04 05:15:00 UTC
        

      






mass-move component to LC1

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Ian 'Hixie' Hickson

        

        
        

        
          2011-08-14 06:53:36 UTC
        

      






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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: rel=author doesn't mean the page is exclusively about the author, and rel=license doesn't mean the page is exclusively about the license. As the example says, "the target page HAS INFORMATION ABOUT the current page's...".