- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:56:40 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Per Tim's reasonable suggestion, I am breaking up my commentary message into topical email-bites. At 8:19 PM 12/19/96, Tim Bray wrote: > >5.2 predefined link roles equivalent to those already in wide > use on the Internet We don't have any link roles on the internet, at the moment... We could grep through opentext or altavista for REV and REL attributes, but other than that we really have only one role: "unlabelled-destination". I don't object to this requirement, but I think it is content-free given the poor infrastructure in place. 5.3 Provision for link explainers. This is a critical issue for multi-end links, and not necessarily for 2-end links. You need a way to attach explanatory text to each link end that can explain the meaning of that link-end to the user. This is different from the role, as you may still want an explanation of how a general role (like REFUTES, say) is relevant to a specifc instance of a link. This is an old-fashioned, but tremendously powerful link-preview facility for authors and readers. -- David I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________
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