This is an archived snapshot of W3C's public bugzilla bug tracker, decommissioned in April 2019. Please see the home page for more details.

Bug 15512 - 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
Summary: Section: Links >> Link types; Requesting that the link type "publisher" be re...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: 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:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-01-11 01:19 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-02-06 23:08 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

See Also:

Attachments

Description contributor 2012-01-11 01:19:19 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Julian Reschke 2012-01-11 09:48:02 UTC 
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]"
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-02-06 23:08:04 UTC 
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