<LINK> tags

T

The Numerator

I know a lot about HTML, but all this time I don't know what the <LINK>
tags in the head do. There are those that call a stylesheet, favicon,
etc. But what about those that state the contents of the page, identify
the next and previous page, etc. Do some browsers support them or are
they just for organization or something?
 
B

Brian

The said:
I don't know what the <LINK> tags in the head do.
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what about those that state the contents of the page, identify the
next and previous page, etc. Do some browsers support them or are
they just for organization or something?
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Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to
the urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
version, and there have been no updates for some time. :-(

Opera has this built in. There are a few other browsers that also have
support for it. As you might have guessed, IE is not one.
 
D

Dan

Brian said:
Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to
the urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
version, and there have been no updates for some time. :-(
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The Mozilla / SeaMonkey suite has native support for LINK elements, one
reason I prefer it over the more-hyped Firefox.
 
D

Dan

The said:
I know a lot about HTML, but all this time I don't know what the <LINK>
tags in the head do. There are those that call a stylesheet, favicon,
etc. But what about those that state the contents of the page, identify
the next and previous page, etc. Do some browsers support them or are
they just for organization or something?
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Some info about LINK tags and other HTML head / metadata elements is in
my site:

http://webtips.dan.info/titles.html
 
J

Jim Moe

The said:
I know a lot about HTML, but all this time I don't know what the <LINK>
tags in the head do. There are those that call a stylesheet, favicon,
etc. But what about those that state the contents of the page, identify
the next and previous page, etc. Do some browsers support them or are
they just for organization or something?
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See <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html>, section 12.3.
 
A

axlq

Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to
the urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
version, and there have been no updates for some time. :-(

Opera has this built in. There are a few other browsers that also have
support for it. As you might have guessed, IE is not one.
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Lynx does it too.

-A
 
T

Toby Inkster

Brian said:
Opera has this built in. There are a few other browsers that also have
support for it. As you might have guessed, IE is not one.
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Mozilla (0.9.5-0.9.9 and 1.1+) has support too and iCab. Also, a few older
browsers like Mosaic and UdiWWW. Most command-line browsers include
support for <LINK>, including Lynx.

There is an add-in for IE too:
http://www.draig.de/LinkBar/index.en.html
 
V

VK

Brian said:
Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to
the urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
version, and there have been no updates for some time. :-(

Opera has this built in. There are a few other browsers that also have
support for it. As you might have guessed, IE is not one.
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?

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="Bx2/css/default.css">
<script type="text/javascript">
function init() {
var lnk = document.getElementsByTagName('LINK');
for (var i=0; i<lnk.length; i++) {
alert(lnk.href);
// Or get the URI content over Ajax if the same domain.
// Or get the style sheet content from any domain
// (the latter not supported yet only by Opera)
}
}

window.onload = init;
</script>
</head>

<body>

</body>
</html>
 
T

Timothy Larson

Brian said:
Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to
the urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
version, and there have been no updates for some time. :-(
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This reason alone makes me want to figure out how to do scripting in FF,
so I can write a new LINK bar. I was a big proponent of LINK support in
Mozilla, and it's one thing I still miss in FF.


Tim
 
B

Blinky the Shark

Brian said:
Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to the
urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
version, and there have been no updates for some time. :-(
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It doesn't work, or the extension won't install?

Here's why I ask, and here's a general tip for other FF extension fans:

I wanted an extension for 1.5 that only was rated up to FF 0.8. I
didn't notice, that, and of course the install went south.

I was looking at the home page for that extension and happened to notice a
post in is forum that said it would work fine if you tweaned what I'll
call the "permissable version" line in the targetInstallation
of the install.rdf that is contained by the .xpi file that comprises the
distribution file for the extension.

I changed that line to read:

<em:maxVersion>1.6</em:maxVersion>

from 0.8, and it worked fine here in FF/Linux.

I shared this with a friend who uses WinXP, and for good measure he
changed the value to 2.0 and his installation works fine, too.

I just looked at some other install.rdf files in extension packages, and
they all had that line.

So: if it won't install, that's something to try.
 
K

kchayka

Brian said:
Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to
the urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
version, and there have been no updates for some time. :-(
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FYI, the seamonkey/mozilla suite supports it natively. The Firefox
extension is crappy in comparison.
 
S

Steve Fulton

Brian said:
Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to
the urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
version, and there have been no updates for some time. :-(

Opera has this built in. There are a few other browsers that also have
support for it. As you might have guessed, IE is not one.
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As long as extensions are OK: ;-)
<http://www.draig.de/LinkBar/index.en.html>
 
G

Guest

Toby Inkster wrote :
Mozilla (0.9.5-0.9.9 and 1.1+) has support too and iCab. Also, a few older
browsers like Mosaic and UdiWWW. Most command-line browsers include
support for <LINK>, including Lynx.

There is an add-in for IE too:
http://www.draig.de/LinkBar/index.en.html
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Seamonkey 1.0, 1.1 and 1.5a supports it.

Firefox 1.0.x supports but you have to download the extension.

Firefox 1.5.x also supports it. Look for attachment 3774 at
http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13069

Other references:

W3C Quality Assurance tip for webmasters:
Use <link>s in your document
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/use-links

Link bars
http://webcoder.info/reference/LinkBars.html

Gérard
 
?

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Talbot?=

Dan wrote :
The Mozilla / SeaMonkey suite has native support for LINK elements, one
reason I prefer it over the more-hyped Firefox.
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Site Navigation toolbar (or link toolbar) for Firefox 1.5.x can be
downloaded and installed from this bugfile:
http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13069

linktoolbar-1.1.99.1.xpi
38,814 bytes

look for attachment 3774 in that bugfile

Gérard
 

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