- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 07:56:50 -0500
- To: cbullard@hiwaay.net
- CC: dgd@cs.bu.edu, w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
Len writes: >> I never said I saw a set of IDL interfaces as being a the desired >> output from this WG, and ideed, even quired whether it was in our >> charter to do anything about semantic definition. > >I will be interested to see if we can avoid it forever. >A <a href= has a behavior (goto). A target= is behavior (get/put). >No stylesheet is involved. An <embed is a behavior, etc. >Agreed these are a particular application's behavior, but >they are the common things done with links and what any >Web user will expect to do with XML links. This is actually a very important point, and one that you repeat a number of times in various forms. My personal view is that a link definition is just the same as any other data until interpreted, and that we can separate definition and definition of interpretation.
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