- From: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:25:12 +0100
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
2009/6/21 Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com> wrote: >> >> 2009/6/20 Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>: >> > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Isn't that lack of control what made the web not become yet another >> >> failed >> >> hyperetext system a la xanadu? >> > >> > are you arguing that cross-origin image loads made it successful? I >> > think >> > not, >> >> I first saw the web in 1997, so wasn't there, but from my reading of >> history, I understand that a general principle of the web was a lack >> of control over copying and linking - academia was paying for >> everyone's bandwidth, so there was no reason to build controls into >> the technology. Cross origin image linking is one application of that >> general principle. > > > This isn't really the place, but... Thanks for explaining - I'm happy to accept that they just weren't considered, rather than that they were intentionally left unimplemented because cross site linking was seen as a virtue.
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