I find it hard to understand why rel=footnote would have been dropped.
In general, I do see the value in only using registered rel attribute values.
You can?t propose native rel functionality if it?s seeing much use to mean
something else.
However, since rel=footnote *was* valid at some point, and *has* seen widespread
adoption, I can see no harm whatsoever in continuing to output it. It nicely
allows its styling via CSS3 attribute selections.
Similarly, if `rev` is altogether deprecated, well, there is no harm in
continuing to output it. Browsers cannot and will never choke on that ? the
worst they can do is ignore it.
Alan
PS I believe the unfinished nature of HTML5 is not a valid reason to care about
HTML5, but it *is* probably just cause not to worry about small
"errors" like this when validating against it.
On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Mark wrote:
> > I just received a report [1] that the footnote output we use in
> > Python-Markdown (an exact copy of PHP Markdown Extra [3]) is not valid
> > HTML [3]. If you notice he's using HTML5. At least the footnote
syntax
> > does valid on XHTML1 or HTML4. Anyway, any suggestions on how the
> > various footnote implementations want to move forward with this?
> >
> > [1]: https://github.com/waylan/Python-Markdown/issues/129
> > [2]: http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#fn-output
> > [3]:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.posativ.org%2F2012%2Flinkschleuder-26%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
> >
>
>
> HTML5 is not finished, not finalised, and probably never will be (or at
> least the HTML.next stuff won't ever be). At this point, validating to
> perfect HTML5 is a pointless exercise as there is no such thing.
> There are two issues in this case
> 1) that the rel attribute can no longer be whatever you want. They
> require you to 'register' the values. Except that
"footnote" has been
> dropped [1]. The whole affair of registering values is backwards if you
> ask me, but there you go. Personally, I would just ignore this issue.
> HTML5 is in too much of a flux to care about minor things like this.
> 2) rev attribute is obsolete. That's easy, replace it with
> rel="footnoteanchor" or similar, except that then you'll have
to
> register it etc. But only if you really care about HTML5, which is not
> finished, and won't be finished for another 20 years or more.
>
> The main thing is, that HTML5 isn't finished, and the semantics are
> subject to change. I would suggest continuing to target finished
> standards, and if you really care, remove the rel and rev attributes
> which will validate in both HTML4 and HTML5, but will result in fewer
> semantics (something the HTML5 people don't seem to care too much about
> anyway).
>
> [1]: http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values#dropped
>
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