- From: Tom Magliery <mag@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 12:39:05 -0600
- To: www-html@w3.org
Ka-Ping Yee wrote: >On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Zenon Panoussis wrote: >> New HTML link tag proposal. >[...] >> The trouble with links is that they can take you anywhere, and you never >> know beforehand where that will be. What hides behind a link can be the >> final answer to the main question, or a silly connection to somebody's >> silly home page. You never know beforehand. > >I agree that knowing the role of a given link is important. However, >there has been a way to do this in HTML for a very long time -- it's >just that browser implementors have, for the most part, ignored it. See below for good news, but first: [...] ><link rev="MADE" href="mailto:the-author"> > >in the document's HEAD, thus indicating that "the-author" MADE the >containing document. There are several useful suggested values for REL >and REV in a discussion paper on the topic by Murray Maloney, which you >can find at > >http://ogopogo.nttc.edu/tools/html/mmaloney_links.html The Internet Draft version of this, by Murray Maloney and Lee Quin, is more current: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-html-relrev-00.txt >So, in short, the mechanism to do what you want is certainly there. >All we have to do is convince a browser manufacturer to implement >this mechanism. Ok, we're convinced. :-) NCSA Mosaic for Windows supports the LINK tag in the upcoming version 2.2, now in the hands of alpha-testers. Each LINK tag results in a button being added to a special toolbar. Clicking on the button takes the action (follows the link) associated with the LINK tag. The implementation is done; we're now working on niggling details like whether we should display text in the buttons or just icons, what the icons should be, and so on. Feedback from alpha-testers has been positive. We expect to have a public beta release of 2.2 probably in early April. mag -- .---o Tom Magliery, Research Programmer .---o `-O-. NCSA, 605 E. Springfield (217) 333-3198 `-O-. o---' Champaign, IL 61820 O- mag@ncsa.uiuc.edu o---'
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