[uf-new] rel-code

[Jamie Rumbelow]

Ok, I wasn't doing my homework, I apologize.


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On 14 Jan 2009, at 22:18, Toby A Inkster <mail at tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

> Jamie Rumbelow wrote:
>
>> By adding rel="code" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the  
>> destination
>> of the hyperlink contains a source code file. By adding a
>> lang="whatever-programming-language" attribute, the document can  
>> specify
>> what programming language the destination contains.
>
> The HTML 4.01 recommendation defines the lang attribute as being an  
> RFC 1766 code. (RFC 1766 has since been obsoleted by RFC 3066,  
> itself obsoleted by RFC 4646/4647, so one assumes that authors  
> should now use RFC 4646/4647 codes instead.) Putting a programming  
> language in there is against the spirit of the spec, and (although  
> SGML validators won't spot it) against the defined syntax.
>
> HTML already contains a perfectly good way of indicating that a  
> linked file is in a particular programming language - the type  
> attribute.
>
> <a href="foo.pl" type="application/x-perl">Foo (download script)</a>
>
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