On Wed, 07 May 2003 17:01:11 -0700 (PDT), Brion Vibber
<vibber(a)aludra.usc.edu> gave utterance to the following:
I've been reading the new draft standard of XHTML
2.0, and in the midst
of wading through obscure tags that I was shocked to realize have been
part of HTML for a decade without ever being used but are still there,
was
reminded of a couple things we could do:
Interlanguage links should produce <link> tags to go in the <head>
section, such as:
<link title="This article in Swahili"
rel="alternate"
lang="sw"
href="http://sw.wikipedia.org/..." />
And also:
<link title="Printable version"
rel="alternate"
media="print"
href="http://....?printable=yes" />
why waste precious capacity generating a different version of the page for
printing? A print stylesheet (or an @media section in the main stylesheet)
is much more efficient.
and perhaps:
<link title="Wikipedia copyright"
rel="copyright"
href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights" />
Will it have any practical results? I dunno. But it sounds exciting and
standards-compliant!
And there are even browsers which support it these days!
--
Richard Grevers
Confucius say: People having gift for gab know not how to wrap it up