- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 10:26:20 -0400
- To: Ankur Bhatnagar <ankurb@wipsys.soft.net>, www-html@w3.org
At 10:55 AM 6/26/96 +0530, Ankur Bhatnagar wrote: >I think fetching _entire_ document is undesirale for two >reasons: >1. It wastes bandwidth. Sometimes the relevent reference is > only of one or two lines while the file consists of 500 or > more lines. It wastes time also esp. if the reference is > somewhere towards the end of the documents. >2. It distracts the attention of the reader towards other > unrelated topics. Your suggestion would require a whole new tree structure overlayed on top of the standard HTML element tree. That seems like overkill. It seems simpler to allow people to link to a DIV element. HTML 3.0 allowed this but HTML 3.2 does not. Paul Prescod
Received on Wednesday, 26 June 1996 10:27:44 UTC