- From: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:40:06 -0400
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
At 12:26 PM 10/8/2002 -0700, Tim Bray wrote: >>As for extended links in general, it's a "would be nice" issue for me -- >>but ONLY after we get simple linking worked out. Until then, it's a >>non-starter. > >As I've said, I think that HTML has already done a superb job of working >out simple linking; it's given the world what it wants and the world has >embraced it. What's to work out? -Tim At the risk of repeating myself -- a linking mechanism that does not require arcane knowledge of a specialized type of linking that a 'generic xml processor' won't be be able to handle (assuming a definition of a generic xml processor = xml, namespaces, xlink) The proposal for added defaulting behavior in XLink 1+ would solve much of that. Ann ----- Ann Navarro, WebGeek, Inc. http://www.webgeek.com say what? http://www.snorf.net/blog
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