Re: Proposal: New Anchor attributes
Scott E. Preece (preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com)
Fri, 24 May 1996 08:44:47 -0500
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 08:44:47 -0500
From: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece)
Message-Id: <199605241344.IAA10639@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
To: craigt@ether.phx.mcd.mot.com
Cc: ronnie@driver-aces.com, www-html@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Craig Tinsley's message of Thu, 23 May 1996 15:47:06 -0700
Subject: Re: Proposal: New Anchor attributes
From: Craig Tinsley <craigt@ether.phx.mcd.mot.com>
|
| Ron Schnell wrote:
| > I would like to propose two new attributes for the Anchor element.
| > 1. ALT=[URL]
| > This attribute would specify an alternate URL should the HREF be
| > unavailable.
|
| Though I believe the idea as a whole is a good one, I don't know whether I
| would confuse HTML authors by offering another definition for ALT. It may be
| less confusing to use something such as HREFALT (you notice that I state that
| as though a typing *longer* tag name is more desireable than typing a shorter
| one... ;-) ).
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There's no reason to assume that one alternate will be sufficient; you
really should allow for a list of HREFs. Since attribute syntax would
make it difficult to convey a list of URLs in the value of the HREF
attribute, it might be easiest to put the HREF into a sub-element of
A (or any other element where alternatives should be provided:
<A>
<HREF TIMEOUT=10>http://www.abc.com</HREF>
<HREF>http://www.xyz.com</HREF>
The best source at this moment
</A>
With an application convention saying that multiple HREFs are tried in
order.
scott
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