John Abbe wrote:
> As you may have heard, movement is afoot to implement an edit button in
> web browsers.

While the idea may have some merit, the proposed implementation is *bad*
and against the semantics of the HTML standard:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/wiki" href="..."/>

The type attribute denotes the format of the content. There is no
application/wiki content. Every blog/wiki/.. I know of serves HTML or
XHTML content. This application/wiki content would only make sense if
the content was raw wiki markup without any HTML whatsoever.

The only sensible thing is

<link rel="edit" type="text/html" href="..."/>

Whoever is in charge of pushing this microformat should read the HTML
standard and change the edit-Link accordingly.

The HTML spec, gives following example for <link>:
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.1.2)

<LINK rel="prev" href="chapter4.html">
<LINK rel="next" href="chapter6.html">

Can you tell me one reason why rel="edit" is not the only sane choice?

/Arno