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Why should this particular <link> incantation receive special treatment over others?

by yycom 16y ago

nakkiel 16y ago
How are other <link> elements not specially treated? <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ycombinator.com/news.css"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico"> Also, this will make a good reading: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.3 http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.3 "Although LINK has no content, it conveys relationship information that may be rendered by user agents in a variety of ways (e.g., a tool-bar with a drop-down menu of links)."
- kroc 16y ago
  Well put; what I believe in is that user agents should do their absolute best to make the most sense of what information is available to it in the context of the UI paradigm of the user agent. i.e. there is not enough screen space on phones for every website to fit an RSS icon; the browser should do the best thing that befits its UI and help minimise the efforts of the user to get the information they want. RSS can massively help with that. Imagine for example that on the Chrome home page, where sites you visit often appear, Chrome also was following the RSS of these sites in the background, and listing new news items for those sites on the home page, all without you having to do anything. There is infinite possibility here for browser vendors to make browsing quicker, easier and more intelligent and RSS is a key part of that. The browser vendors are not interested in exploring this avenue and as such everybody is stuck doing the same stupid routine every single day. This is dumb! Our computers should be smarter than this!
  - nakkiel 16y ago
    Imagine for example that on the Chrome home page, where sites you visit often appear, Chrome also was following the RSS of these sites in the background, and listing new news items for those sites on the home page, all without you having to do anything. That's a hell of a good idea actually. Having a count of items that popped on a website since your last visit would be a really useful information.

Why should this particular <link> incantation receive special treatment over others?

by yycom 16y ago

Why should this particular <link> incantation receive special treatment over others?

How are other <link> elements not specially treated? <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ycombinator.com/news.css"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico"> Also, this will make a good reading: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.3 http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.3 "Although LINK has no content, it conveys relationship information that may be rendered by user agents in a variety of ways (e.g., a tool-bar with a drop-down menu of links)."

kroc 16y ago
Well put; what I believe in is that user agents should do their absolute best to make the most sense of what information is available to it in the context of the UI paradigm of the user agent. i.e. there is not enough screen space on phones for every website to fit an RSS icon; the browser should do the best thing that befits its UI and help minimise the efforts of the user to get the information they want. RSS can massively help with that. Imagine for example that on the Chrome home page, where sites you visit often appear, Chrome also was following the RSS of these sites in the background, and listing new news items for those sites on the home page, all without you having to do anything. There is infinite possibility here for browser vendors to make browsing quicker, easier and more intelligent and RSS is a key part of that. The browser vendors are not interested in exploring this avenue and as such everybody is stuck doing the same stupid routine every single day. This is dumb! Our computers should be smarter than this!
- nakkiel 16y ago
  Imagine for example that on the Chrome home page, where sites you visit often appear, Chrome also was following the RSS of these sites in the background, and listing new news items for those sites on the home page, all without you having to do anything. That's a hell of a good idea actually. Having a count of items that popped on a website since your last visit would be a really useful information.