352282 - Documentation Style Guide should encourage use of <link rel="..."> for intra-page, inter-page and intra-project navigation

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Gérard Talbot]

A growing number of browsers (Opera, Icab, Seamonkey, Lynx, NS 7, etc.) now implement Site Navigation toolbar for assisting intra-page navigation, inter-page navigation and, in the case of mozilla.org each project site, intra-project navigation.

Firefox users can install 2 extensions implementing a Site Navigation toolbar.

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

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

Expected results:
add an item at "Linking, Anchors, and URLs" of provided URL which would say something like:

{
Usage of <link rel="..." is encouraged. Linking section, linking entrance project page, linking table of contents, linking previous and next page within a serie of pages, etc.. help users make use of Site Navigation toolbar. Firefox users can install a Site Navigation toolbar as an extension; Seamonkey and many other browsers implement some sort of Site Navigation toolbar or a Link toolbar.
Using <link rel="first" ...>, <link rel="previous" ...>, <link rel="next"> and <link rel="last" ...> should be used in pages arranged/ordered in a slideshow.
}

Seamonkey project pages, Access Mozilla and DOM project pages have up to a certain extent already implemented <link rel="...">.

Comment 1

[Gérard Talbot]

Doh! Usage of <link> is encouraged in that document!

"Use <link> elements to link to related documents."
http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/writing/guidelines#meta

Sorry for the bugmail!

Resolving as WORKSFORME