- From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 14:08:03 -0700
- To: www-talk@w3.org
Michael Mealling suggested a META att on A to allow an anchor to point separately to meta for the target (Dexter:head) of the link. It would be good to be able to do this sometimes, but the mechanism could be abused by authors who point to either false meta or false content, relying on the true content or meta to lull readers into acceptance. Maybe that's a better issue for the URI list; in any event the reader would have to be made aware that the meta was being fetched per info in the link rather than as a result of a fresh attempt at finding it through a URC resolution service (the point of departure for Michael's suggestion). The case of pointing to one's own meta in HTML's META is somewhat different, but the possibilities for confusion and deceit are similarly interesting. Regards, -- Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Editor, Digital Media Group 101 Morris St. Sebastopol, Calif., 95472 A Davenport Group sponsor. For information on the Davenport Group see ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/README.html or http://www.ora.com/davenport/README.html Current HTML 2.0 spec: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-html-spec-05.txt
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