- From: <lee@sq.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 97 10:08:16 EST
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com> wrote: > Behaviour is not up to the user, it is up to the author. It is the > author/server that has to control what happens when the link is selected by > the user. Except in rare cases the user should not be able to change the > action that selecting a link causes.This is why you must separate > presentation from behaviour. Note that in Netscape, clicking on a link with the middle mouse button opens the target of tht link in a new window; shift-clicking saves the target to disk. These are behaviours chosen by the reader. > I like this terminology (except for the termini - how the hell do I present > Gard du Nord or Waterloo to users?) I am beginning to wonder if "terminus" has a non-railway meaning to North Americans??? It really _is_ awfully comical! > >B. Link traversal > > > > What happens when a link is traversed. > This would be better called Link Action. Traversal is not something > non-rocket scientists understand. I agree. > What most users understand by clicking on > a hotspot is that some action should take place. This is what the > behavioural side of the equation covers. Hmm, no-one has suggested hotspot for the footprint of a link. Lee
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