Re: Another approch to style hyperlinks

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>
> * Ian Hickson wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>>
>>> I came to the conclusion, that I don't like the @link rule syntax.
>>> [...]
>>
>> Personally, I do not really understand why we need this to be in CSS at
>> all. Stylesheets are supposed to be optional, but links are an inherent
>> part of the data. What's wrong with simply relying on XLink to tell us
>
> ...or semantics of the used document language...

agreed

>> what is a link?
>
> Well, authors would be able to add extended hyperlinking capabilities to
> documents the document language didn't consider.

Thus XLink link bases.

> Take the longdesc attribute as example, HTML 4 defines it to carry an
> URI but not if and how users may access the resource behind it, nor
> how it should be presented to the user. I think another design goal is
> to allow user agents, that don't know the used document language
> and/or don't know XLink are able to present the document anyway in a
> appropriate manner.

There are two issues here. Link identification, and link style and
behaviour. I believe the first is out of the scope of CSS, and the second
is very much _in_ the scope of CSS.

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