<link rel=...> in head section

[David A. Bayly]

The idea was to "create a standard way to link to the syndicated 
version of a site homepage", see 
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/06/02.html#important_change_to_the_link_tag

But the implementation neglects that some people  prefer to use 
"standard" html  for example   not necessarily wanting to use  xml 
closing tags in their html (depending on what version of html  they 
write for) or because of the side effects such as you found.

There's no way to turn it off, except to patch it out in 
manilaSuite.renderNewsPage.




>What is the purpose of the following tag?
><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
>href="http://teachers.ops.org/nicklink/xml/rss.xml" />
>
>Manila adds it, I assume through {meta}. It doesn't do anything in a
>graphical browser, but does show in Lynx and non-graphical browsers. Taking
>the link pulls up a download prompt.
>
>Is there a way to turn this off?
>
>Kelly Nicklin
>Web Development/Internet Support
>Information Management Services
>Omaha Public Schools
>nicklink at ops.org
>Voice: 402/557-2514
>FAX: 402/557-2509


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