Re: Suggestion: ALTHREF attribute

James Green (jmkgre@essex.ac.uk)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:18:39 +0000 (GMT) 

From: James Green <jmkgre@essex.ac.uk>
To: www-html@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980115193505.00965a30@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Message-Id: <SIMEON.9801161239.A@s1672.essex.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:18:39 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: Suggestion: ALTHREF attribute


On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:35:05 -0500 Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com> wrote:

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> At 01:43 PM 15/01/98 +0000, James Green wrote:
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> ><MIRROR HREF="http://www.myname.com.au/">
> 
> What about
> 
> <LINK REL="Alternate" HREF="http://www.myname.com.au/" TYPE="text/html">
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> ?  No extension to HTML needed.

True.

[ ... ]

> >Any files within these directories and of course directories within 
> >directories should contain the exact same tag.
> 
> Then you're linking a single document to an entire site.  I think it would 
> be more straightforward if the mirror link pointed to the corresponding 
> document, particularly if using the LINK element, since other LINKs apply 
> to the document and not the site.

That could become an administrative headache. Should you be unfortunate 
enough to maintain a large site, one with possibly many mirrors, then 
giving the exact mirror locations for each link could possibly create 
the need for a completely new post in a company - just to keep up with 
them and maintain them. This is impracticle for us mere mortals who are 
a one-man band.

When I suggested using one location - the root mirror - it was intended 
to make the server/client software figure out where the local (current) 
file was on the mirror server, based on the local (following the root) 
pathname, e.g. http://schools.sys.uea.ac.uk/schoolnet/jg/ being of 
exactly the same contents as http://users.aol.com/cnsweb1/ - a file 
being of the form /content/articles/170html being in both the above 
directories. Of course, both would have to be of identicle structure 
and naming system for the browser to find it. Alternatively, should a 
web site have it's files 'mapped' to a mirror's filenames, then perhaps 
a textfile maintained in the root could serve as a lookup - this 
however, would not be very sensible and avoided at all costs.


Regards,

James Green

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