- From: len bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 22:24:51 -0600
- To: lee@sq.com
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
lee@sq.com wrote: > > Frankly I think all this stuff is far too complicated anyway. > Tim Berners-Lee made a simpler system, and many more people adopted it. Yes, but that gets us nowhere. If everyone adopts horses tomorrow, are you going to give up your car? We need link databases. Some of the things we must do with industrial documents don't work well without them. Ilinks were made to work in Sperry Rand databases decades ago. What Tim did was understood long before Tim did it. It gets us nothing but what we have: hard to manage spaghetti. If that is what the "many more" want, they have it now. Onward and yes, upward. BTW, most of us have link databases now. We hide them in compiled files and use various tricks of the operating system to pair them with our documents, eg., filename extension hacks. len
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