- From: Steven J. DeRose <sjd@ebt.com>
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 19:56:22 -0500
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 03:23 PM 03/02/97 +0700, James Clark wrote: >- I'm not convinced that all combinations of SHOW and ACTUATE make sense, >for example, SHOW=REPLACE ACTUATE=AUTO. Ithought that too, but then realized that is essentially the behavior that "forwarding" links on the WEb have: they show you a screen saying the data has moved, then take you there automatically. NOt my favorite behavior for a link in principle, but we get an existing feature for free. > >- I think PUSH is on a slightly different axis. If I can have SHOW=NEW and >ACTUATE=PUSH, which presumably means the browser pops up a new window >automatically and then keeps refreshing it, why can't I also have something >that means the browser pops up a new windows when the user asks and then >keeps refreshing it. PUSH seems to be saying something about the volatility >of resource which is a different issue from what the appropriate behaviour >is for links to the resource. Hmmmm. Interesting point.
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