At 10:15 AM 12/26/96, Jon Bosak wrote: >[Peter Flynn:] > >| I agree fully that it is high time we reclaimed some of the remoter >| linguistic vagrancies of HyTime, and that we need to do so in a >| language understanded of the people. My problem is that users tend to >| think of links in terms of direction, whether or not any >| directionality is implied: so "link end" still retains connotations of >| "target" and anchor retains connotations of "source". > >Well, connotation is in the mind of the beholder, I guess. "Anchor" >started out with a directional connotation (although I think with some >historical investigation you might find some people who thought that >"anchor" meant "source" rather than "target"), but the vernacular >usage fostered by HTML calls both ends "anchors". <A HREF> is on one >end and <A NAME> is on the other, and they are both <A> (anchor) >elements. I would also note that the senses of the terms you use have been in use since the 60's in the Hypertext research community. And, of course, multi-ended links are frequently non-directional, so that the confusion (if it occurs), ill be unlikely to persist. -- David I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________Received on Thursday, 26 December 1996 16:59:58 EST
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