- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:22:50 -0500
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Dan Connolly writes: >> which is why you'll find non-hyperlinked URLs at the >> end of, for example, some New York Times articles Interesting. Some user agents, especially those operating on plain text rather than HTML, have heuristics that infer link semantics for any string meeting certain criteria (e.g. http://*). So, the provider of data gives a "non-hyperlinked" URL, but the user agent presents a link. Hard for me to see a useful distinction between that case and the "prohibitied" <a href="">, but perhaps some legal minds would infer differing degrees of intent on the part of those offering the page with the URL. -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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