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Bug 13497 - Description for "alternate" should cover cases like the "alternate stylesheet", "alternate icon" and "alternate pingback" fallbacks, not just refer to the current document.
Summary: Description for "alternate" should cover cases like the "alternate stylesheet...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y, a11y_text-alt
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-08-01 09:45 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-16 18:55 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-08-01 09:45:41 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#linkTypes
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#linkTypes

Comment:
Description for "alternate" should cover cases like the "alternate
stylesheet", "alternate icon" and "alternate pingback" fallbacks, not just
refer to the current document.

Posted from: 213.120.126.47
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Safari/534.50
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:33:44 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1
Comment 2 Anne 2011-08-16 10:52:11 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: It already covers alternate in combination with stylesheet. That is however a legacy exception as link relations are designed to be orthogonal.