Re: [Lynx-dev] rev=made and identifying page author

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:

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> I'm interested to know if anyone is aware of the history behind the rev=made
> feature in lynx?  The current implementation violates HTML in a couple of
> ways:

docs/CHANGES2.3 says this:

12-15-93
* ownership is no longer inherited.
* link rev="owner" href="mailto:ADDRESS"; now accepted as well as
  link rev="made" href="mailto:ADDRESS"; to define the URL of the
  owner or person responsible for the info.

That's "when".  For "who" - I don't know, other than by context that it
wasn't Foteos Macrides.

> 1) It only looks for the attribute on <link> hyperlinks and not on <a>
> hyperlinks
> 2) rev=made implies that the email address was made by the page, rel=made or
> rev=made by would be better

I don't see this in the HTML 4.0 spec...

        http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links

> I'm also wondering if anything that isn't lynx supports this, as I can find
> very little documenation on the format anywhere.  Would there be any
> interest in using more modern (and these days common) formats like hCard?
>
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> Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma
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