- From: Arve Bersvendsen <arve@virtuelvis.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:09:43 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:36:22 -0600, Dave Straight <dstraight@amadorgroup.com> wrote: > I would love to see a tag that you could use to make multi-page documents > easily accessible. What I mean is a <next> tag that would allow users to > just click some function button or key and the next page would be loaded > automatically. This feature has been in HTML ever since HTML 2.0, ref. <URL:http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_5.html#SEC5.2.4>. The sad part is: just recently has mainstream user agents added support for it. (You should also check out the HTML 4.01 spec: <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#edef-LINK> ) Some user agents that support this: - Opera 7 - Mozilla / Netscape 6/7 / Mozilla FireBird - Links - Lynx The culprit is, as always, Microsoft Internet Explorer in any flavour, with no support at all. The user agents that support this usually provide a navigation bar, where the available link relationships are visible. If you want an example of how this works, I suggest getting a browser like Opera 7, and test with a page like <URL:http://www.virtuelvis.com/archives/99.html>, where you will see a navigation bar offering Previous, Next, Index, Search and About links. (The list is by no means exhaustive, these are just the ones that I remembered while typing) -- Arve Bersvendsen http://www.virtuelvis.com http://www.bersvendsen.com
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