- From: Sander Tekelenburg <tekelenb@euronet.nl>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:41:06 +0100
At 11:39 +0600 UTC, on 2005/12/15, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: [...] > Absolute navigation includes links to fixed pages, the same on all pages > of the site. Usually these are links to top-level sections and subsections > thereof. Following an absolute link is like skipping to a fixed vertex in > a graph, or resolving an absolute pathname on a filesystem. The absolute > navigation is somewhat covered with the <link> mechanism (rel="toc", for > example), but it's not enough because the fixed nodes referenced by > absolute navigation is rarely described with specific roles like "TOC"; > more often, these are just top-level sections of the site. Don't forget that the current HTML spec <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links> [1] also specifies a "section" value [2] says "Authors may wish to define additional link types not described in this specification. If they do so, they should use a profile to cite the conventions used to define the link types." I had never used "section" but just now I've added it to my personal site (URL in sig below), to try how flexible it is. I get the impression it could work well for lots of sites. Where it doesn't provide enough flexibility, the profile attribute <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-profile> might offer a solution, but I'm not aware of any implementations and as such it is unclear to me how as an author you would use profile. And of course [1] there is the possibility of defining more LINK types in the spec. [2] this doesn't necessarily have to concentrate on lINK, but could concentrate on the construction <nav><menu><A rel="value" href="URL">home</A></menu</nav>. -- Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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