w3c recommended provision of a UA UI element for link based document relationships?

[Spartanicus]

I seem to recall that w3c recommends somewhere that UAs should provide a
UI element for <link> based document relationships. I expected to find
it in the html 4.01 spec, but I haven't been able to locate it.

Is my memory playing tricks on me?

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Spartanicus

[Neal]

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:29:41 +0000, Spartanicus <[e-mail]> wrote:

I seem to recall that w3c recommends somewhere that UAs should provide a
UI element for <link> based document relationships. I expected to find
it in the html 4.01 spec, but I haven't been able to locate it.

Is my memory playing tricks on me?

I don't recall any such language. But see
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#edef-LINK>:

"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)."

The "may" suggests to me there's no W3C recommendation as to how, or even
if, a UA should have to do anything with link.

[Steve Pugh]

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:29:41 +0000, Spartanicus <[e-mail]>
wrote:

I seem to recall that w3c recommends somewhere that UAs should provide a
UI element for <link> based document relationships. I expected to find
it in the html 4.01 spec, but I haven't been able to locate it.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-LINK
"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)."

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.12
"User agents, search engines, etc. may interpret these link types in a
variety of ways. For example, user agents may provide access to linked
documents through a navigation bar."

More of a suggestion than a recommendation.

Steve

[Matthias Gutfeldt]

Steve Pugh wrote:

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:29:41 +0000, Spartanicus <[e-mail]>
wrote:

I seem to recall that w3c recommends somewhere that UAs should provide a
UI element for <link> based document relationships. I expected to find
it in the html 4.01 spec, but I haven't been able to locate it.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-LINK
"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)."

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.12
"User agents, search engines, etc. may interpret these link types in a
variety of ways. For example, user agents may provide access to linked
documents through a navigation bar."

More of a suggestion than a recommendation.

Yes, and quite a number of user agents support it, there's even a
plug-in for Internet Explorer. Complete list of browsers is here:
<http://gutfeldt.ch/matthias/translation/LINK/ENaddendum.html>.

Well, the list isn't quite complete: Konqueror and Firefox are missing.
I'll add them some day.
Matthias