Re: rel values

[Antone Roundy <antone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, October 9, 2004, at 10:16  AM, Robert Sayre wrote:
> The default behavior associated with a link is the retrieval of 
> another Web resource."[0]
>
> In other words, if you don't want it retrieved, don't put it in a link.

I don't think this is quite narrow enough.  I think <link> should be 
used to retrieve a primary resource.  By "primary resource" I mean for 
example, an HTML page.  The HTML page itself may contain pointers to 
stylesheets, images, etc., which will also be retrieved, but which, in 
that context, are not the primary resources.  That's not to say that 
those other resources couldn't, in some other context, be primary 
resources.  In such a context, it would be appropriate for <link> to 
point to them.