- From: Dave Hollander <dmh@hpsgml.fc.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 08:49:21 -0600
- To: www-html@w3.org
There are several things we should look at if we are to look at the resource identification issues around links. Just a few are: 1) The ability to identify the URL the content owner would like agents to remember a node by. As was discussed in detail last year, the base tag is not adequate for this purpose. 2) The ability to have complex (non-simple CDATA) alternatives for links 3) The ability discussed in this chain to identify multiple alternate resources for a link. Most are covered in Murray Maloney's draft which does not seem to have been discussed much (am I monitoring the wrong lists?). As to Ian's specific suggestion to have the mlink part of the head: YES. As part of response to a HEAD request, a user agent would know what alternatives are available to access the resource. Very useful, especially for those of us who are facing the reliability issues of the "web". Dave Hollander
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