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Re: Re[2]: [Fwd: My future of HTML position paper] - Navigation

From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 10:55:46 -0400 (EDT)
To: html-future@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95q.980513105145.19694A-100000@napier.uwaterloo.ca> 
On Wed, 13 May 1998 david_richmond@nl.compuware.com wrote:

>      Something which could be seen as missing from HTML is formal 
>      Navigation definition.
>      
>      Most web pages I visit have some sort of navigation 'toolbar' above, 
>      below, and/or to the side of every page.
>      
>      One option would be a <NAVIGATION> tag for defining the general 
>      'toolbar' links and some "You are here" indication.

Doesn't the LINK element handle this behaviour already?  It just happens
not to be well implemented.

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Russell O'Connor                           roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
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