Hypertext; for machine or humans?

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 04:01:41PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> Here anyway is an attempt at a practical definition:
> 
> 1. A hypertext references is a reference to something that if traversed
>    will be displayed to a human reader. (So references to stylesheets
>    and script libraries are not hypertext references.)

Hmm, I'm not sure what purpose a human/machine distinction serves here.
To me, that's a property of the data you get back when resolving the
URI, not of the URI itself or to what it refers.

So, a GET on a URI that identifies a stylesheet doesn't necessarily
return the stylesheet; it could return an HTML page saying "This is a
stylesheet for such-and-such".

MB
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