Re: ISSUE-118 CP 3

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Leif Halvard Silli <
xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote:

> @Robert: Firstly, could you define "suddenly gets _new support_"?  And
> in that regard: these days, Opera, Safari and Chrome get support for
> extensions. Thus it should be possible to implement navigation toolbars
> based on these link relations even if the user agents are not shipped
> with such support built in. Hense, unless the mentioned browsers
> suddenly - or in due course - will remove their extension support, this
> does not seem like the right moment to anticipate less support.
>

There have been Firefox extensions exposing these links for years. (In fact,
before Firefox in the Netscape days, the browser had built-in support, but
that's another story...) I haven't ever noticed such extensions showing up
in popularity lists.

So you're totally right that it's possible for users to access these links
in browsers today. But without evidence that a significant number of them
*do*, that doesn't change the picture.

Any increase in deployment of support for these links, whether in the form
of built-in browser UI or downloaded browser extensions, would count as "new
support" that we should consider.

Personally I would have liked "next" at least to have been successful, but
it hasn't, and that's that.

Rob
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they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures
every day to see if what Paul said was true." [Acts 17:11]

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