Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/15835 Post a follow up: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/15835 Project: Drupal Version: 4.5.0 Component: comment.module Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: clockwerx@www.spreadfirefox.com Updated by: Bèr Kessels Status: patch it is, but not in 4.5.what do we do with these 4.5 issues. 4.5 does not get any new features, so the patch will stay in here forever... can we close it? Bèr Kessels Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:07:28 +0000 : clockwerx@www.spreadfirefox.com See this yahoo blog post [1] if you haven't already. " By adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks, webmasters and weblog owners can tell search engines that the links are effectively untrusted. For example, this: buy now [2] Becomes this: buy now [3] " [1] http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000069.html [2] http://spammer.example.com/ [3] http://spammer.example.com/\" rel=\"nofollow ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:11:52 +0000 : clockwerx@www.spreadfirefox.com 6.12 Link types [4] Authors may use the following recognized link types, listed here with their conventional interpretations. In the DTD, %LinkTypes refers to a space-separated list of link types. White space characters are not permitted within link types. " So, you should perhaps be appending this to any existing comment links with a rel attribute. [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-links ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:56:25 +0000 : chrisada +1 for the feature It seems to me this might be easier accomplished as an input filter? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:34:58 +0000 : bradtem Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/nofollow.patch (0 bytes) Here's the trivial patch to includes/common.inc to change this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:04:12 +0000 : stefan nagtegaal Isn't such a thing already in HEAD? I thought Walkagh brought us such a patch, not sure though.. Can't check atm.