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The most recent Road to HTML5 blogpost is on the subject of link relations. To sum up in one sentence, link relations ‘explain why you’re pointing to another page’. But that is to miss all the detail and nuance of the article, so go there and read it if you’re at all interested in web development.

The whatwg blog continues to be a friendly, highly readable and discursive source of information on upcoming HTML5 developments. It also clarifies many misconceptions you may have had about previous HTML specs and the reasoning behind any changes, often in a satisfyingly wry style. On the subject of the ‘rev=made’ attribute it has this to say,

“The decision to drop the rev attribute [from HTML5] seems especially controversial. The same question flares up again and again on the working group’s mailing list: “what happened to the rev attribute?” But in the face of almost-universal misunderstanding (among people who try to use it) and apathy (among everyone else), no one has ever made a convincing case for keeping it that didn’t boil down to “I wish the world were different.” Hey, so do I, man. So do I.”

http://blog.whatwg.org/