On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Inez Korczyński inez@wikia-inc.com wrote:
I don't like that consumer of HTMLDOM would have to know certain rules (starts with http or Special:BookSources) in order to recognize type of the element.
Note that they need to know special rules already, in order to properly identify interwiki links, PMID, RFC, ISBN, external links, etc. So the alternative to this proposal is really to add *more* rel types, past just mw:ExtLink and mw:WikiLink.
The current situation is the worst of both worlds -- we don't provide enough information to accurately identify the link type without examining the URL, but we also require some arbitrary distinction to be made in the rel attribute. --scott