- From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:18:12 +0000
?ann sun 17.j?l 2011 18:36, skrifa?i Jukka K. Korpela: > 17.07.2011 18:07, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: > > I think it would be rather trivial. The string ?ISBN? followed by > something that matches the syntax of ISBN numbers, perhaps allowing some > variation in punctuation, could be treated as an implicit link to a > resource _if_ you have some mechanism(s) for mapping ISBN numbers to URLs. > > The key issue is whether browser vendors have interest in it and which > mechanism(s) would be used. After all, an ISBN could be in a multitude > of ways, like querying an online bookshop, querying an online > bibliographic system, or querying an site of books in digital format > online. Which one should be used? Would it be useful? To be really > useful, it should be handled so that the browser checks what it can get > using the ISBN and then make that information available to user (how to > get bibliographic info, how to read reviews, how to buy the book, how to > borrow it in a library, download or read the book via the net for free > or for fee). > > I don?t think it?s much used in the wild, except on pages by > organizations that define HTML specs. What might be the motivation for > browsers to do something special with it? Surely you could make things > so that by clicking on a blockquote, the user accesses the resource > pointed to by the cite attribute. Browsers could do that, and so could > authors. But would users actually start clicking on quotations to see > their sources? Surely they would far more probably click on the title of > a work in visible credits if present and if it is a link, so what would > the cite attribute help? > Good point > No, it?s not a category thing. It?s about the relativity of being > ?machine-readable.? You are probably thinking of data in a specific > format designed to be easily parseable and useable by computer software, > such as a URL, an ISO 8601 date notation, or an XML tag. But browsers > already do many kinds of heuristics, parsing data that doesn?t really > match the specs. > You *could* interpret handwritten text on a piece of paper using a machine and parse it as HTML. I'm not volunteering for making a machine for that task. > A title of a work is easily useable by software: put it inside quotation > marks and throw it at Google, and the odds are that you get some useful > links related to it, if there?s info on the work (and perhaps the work > itself) on the web at all. Well, assuming that the title is relatively > unique. > > Titles of works are often more useful in the long run than URLs. URLs > change far too often when sites are revamped or for other reasons. > ISBNs are more useful in the long run than titles. Good titles get reused far too often. > I think a good start would be to add an optional (but usually > recommended) <credits> or <source> element for use inside <blockquote>. > What about the common case of multiple quotations credited to the same source (interleaved with comments).
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