Bug 14365

Summary: Implement <link rel="..."> for Site Navigation toolbar
Product: WebKit Reporter: Gérard Talbot <browserbugs2>
Component: New BugsAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: Enhancement CC: jmalonzo, mike, webkit
Priority: P4    
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-links

Description Gérard Talbot 2007-06-24 02:42:06 PDT
The <link> element first appeared in HTML 2.0 and, at that time, it was already a way to implement a Site Navigation toolbar to aid navigation. Still today, many text browsers implement <link rel="..."> that way.

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

Link Bars
How Link Relations Are Implemented
http://webcoder.info/reference/LinkBars.html
(that page seems to ignore the Firefox add-on
Link Widgets 1.5
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2933 )

Subotnik: The 'link'-Element in (X)HTML
http://www.subotnik.net/html/link.html.en

Also Konqueror 3.3 can install a Site Navigation toolbar, according to
http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/web-enable-browser-link-bar.html

I searched for duplicate and I didn't find anything.

Safari 3.0.2 build 522.13.1 here.
Comment 1 Nicholas Shanks 2007-06-27 14:47:28 PDT
Yeah, there's no duplicate because this bug pre‐dates bugzilla, and until His Steveness says there can be a nav bar, it's not likely that <link> elements will be supported. (My non‐official opinion)
Comment 2 Gérard Talbot 2007-06-27 18:05:51 PDT
Opera 7+, Mozilla 1.x, Seamonkey 1.x, Icab 2+, Lynx, Links (and a number of other browsers via add-on extension) can render a Site Navigation toolbar.

Dive Into Accessibility
30 days to a more accessible web site
Providing additional navigation aids
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_9_providing_additional_navigation_aids.html

What's important, IMO, is to offer the user the choice to render a Site Navigation toolbar, just like Seamonkey 1.x does it via a preference: 

o Show always
o Show only as needed
o Hide always

giving the user control, flexibility, choice.
Comment 3 Gérard Talbot 2008-02-21 21:08:53 PST
<link  rel="..."> is defined in the HTML 5 latest WD, at section 4.12.3:
Link types
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#linkTypes
Comment 4 Gérard Talbot 2009-06-14 13:13:49 PDT
I use Konqueror 4.2.4 (rellinks plugin PPA - document relations plugin - must be downloaded and installed) and enjoy the Site Navigation toolbar.

regards, Gérard
Comment 5 James Craig 2015-02-24 18:02:03 PST
Not an AX bug. Reassigning component.