Re: atom:link rel="printer-friendly" ??

["DeWitt Clinton" <dewitt@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Eric Scheid <eric.scheid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

think of it as subtle incentive to mint more specific and appropriate @rel
values =)

Setting the question of "more and appropriate @rel values" aside, why prefer rel="printer-friendly" over rel="print"?

I.e., if people really do want to go there, why not at least stay consistent with the HTML4/CSS2 media naming conventions?

  http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.13
  http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html

But instead of changing the rel value away from the perfectly reasonable "alternate", why not just add @media to the link?

<link rel="alternate"
      media="print"
      type="text/html"
      href="" href="http://www.xml.com/?print=1">http://www.xml.com/?print=1"/>

This is also where HTML5 is headed:

  http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-link

-DeWitt