Re: Handling relocated anchors...

Please consider sending a review comment on the recent working
draft on linking[1] to the editors as per [2].

[1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-htmllink
[2] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Cougar/

Robert Rothenburg 'Walking-Owl' wrote:
> 
> There's a variety of choices to handle moved pages, but what if
> someone puts a link to http://www.any-site.com/foo.html#bar where
> foo.html is still there, but the anchor "bar" has moved (say when
> that section is large enough to merit it's own page at bar.html)?
> 
> A simple kluge is to put a <a name="bar">Moved</a> message for pages
> that link to that section, but it would be nice to mark a referral
> for an anchor that functions like Refresh in HTTPD headers:
> 
>   <a name="bar" refer-href="bar.html">
> 
> So that any links to foo.html#bar are referred to bar.html.

I suggest you consider using link relationships, ala:
	<a name="bar" href="bar.html" rel="redirect">moved</a>


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Received on Wednesday, 16 April 1997 15:31:57 UTC