- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 01:44:15 +0500
- To: brian@organic.com
- Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www10.w3.org>
Brian Behlendorf writes: > > Ha. This is really funny. For those who want some background on a > couple interesting issues, check out the thread that begins at > <URL:http://gummo.stanford.edu/hypermail/.www-talk-1993q1.messages/174.html> > for a history of embedded entities in HTML. Hrrmph. It was funny the first 257 times folks asked "why is there a special <img> tag rather than a generalized <include> tag?" without realizing that the <a> tag was intended to be a generalized include tag, as in: http://gummo.stanford.edu/hypermail/.www-talk-1993q1.messages/178.html http://gummo.stanford.edu/hypermail/.www-talk-1993q1.messages/190.html It was still a little humorous when the first 639 <audio> and <video> tag proposals rolled in. (Again, <a> covers this.) It's really not funny any more. All this hypermedia-hype obscured the really powerful mechanism of typed links. Hopefully, "the truth will out." But the support burden is pretty significant at this point, and that tears away resources from innovation. Daniel W. Connolly "We believe in the interconnectedness of all things" Research Technical Staff, MIT/W3C <connolly@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/People/Connolly
Received on Saturday, 29 April 1995 01:44:19 UTC