Re: Method for A?
Mike Meyer (mwm@contessa.phone.net)
Thu, 25 Sep 1997 15:27:08 PST
In-Reply-To: <199709252141.WAA05384@imbolc.ucc.ie>
From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
To: www-html@w3.org
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 15:27:08 PST
Message-ID: <19970925.78D24D8.DAF7@contessa.phone.net>
Subject: Re: Method for A?
> Date: 25 Sep 1997 22:41:12 +0100
> From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
>
> Mike writes:
> HTML has a number of ways to specify the source of a hyperlink. Prior
> to HTML 4.0, they were the A and FORM elements. Even if there is only
>
> There is also IMG, LINK, META, ISINDEX, BASE, and FIG in HTML3,
> and BGSOUND, APPLET, OBJECT, and EMBED in other clothing.
Others keep telling me that HTML 3, in spite of being an advance over
it's successors, is dead, so I didn't count FIG.
Possibly I misused the terminology, but the rest are not what I'd call
sources for hyperlinks. They are references to objects related to the
current document. The user doesn't get a button on the page to go
fetch those objects.
Of course, IMG gets regularly abused to GET a hit counter. That
doesn't change the correctness of the data on the server, though -
it's wrong either way. I do wonder how POST would change that, though
I suspect the answer is "not enough to matter".
But yeah - it'd be nice if authors were allowed to specify that all of
those were dynamic, and should be fetched only by explicit action by
the user.
I specifically chose *not* to propose alterations to the 4.0 DTD to
deal with this, as some of them have multiple attributes that take
URLs.
<mike