Re: ISSUE-124 rel-limits - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or Counter-Proposals

On 10.11.2010 18:20, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/124
>> http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-124
>>
>> - We have a single change proposal to allow use of the "nofollow" and
>> "noreferrer" relations on<link>  elements
>>
>> At this time the Chairs would also like to solicit alternate Change
>> Proposals (possibly with "zero edits" as the Proposal Details), in case
>> anyone would like to advocate the status quo or a different change than
>> the specific one in the existing Change Proposals.
>
> Are we aware of any user agents that are intending to implement the
> proposed feature? If not, would the lack of such intent be sufficient for
> the chairs to decide against the change proposal even in the absence of
> other proposals, or does a proposal automatically win if it is not
> formally opposed by a counter-proposal?

With respect to "noreferrer":

Continuing with that line of thinking: given the fact that we only have 
a single implementation of this feature so far (webkit), would it make 
sense to take it out, and discuss the more useful "anonymous" annotation 
instead?

With respect to "nofollow":

This is advisory only anyway, and it doesn't seem like the search engine 
implementors are willing to help specifying it. Who knows? Maybe they 
*already* evaluate it on <link> elements in the same way? Who came up 
with the idea it only applies to <a> and <area>, for that matter?

Best regards, Julian

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