- From: Abigail <abigail@tungsten.gn.iaf.nl>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:38:28 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
You, Ron Schnell wrote: ++ ++ This is my first posting to the list...hopefully I'm not repeating ++ someone else's idea... ++ ++ I would like to propose two new attributes for the Anchor element. ++ ++ They are: ++ ++ 1. ALT=[URL] ++ This attribute would specify an alternate URL should the HREF be ++ unavailable. ++ ++ 2. TIMEOUT=[seconds] ++ This attribute would specify an amount of time, after which a ++ browser should give up on the HREF. But how can the author know what is an acceptable time out? If I'm at the end of a noisy and busy link, a 30 second response might be _fast_, but for the author living on his T3, 15 seconds might be the limit. ++ Neither of these would require the other, but each would be more ++ useful with the other. ++ ++ These two attributes would add some redundancy to web pages ++ (locations) that desire to have it. In these times of "high ++ availability" being such an "important issue", I think that this ++ would be strongly embraced by government and commercial entities. I think a more general object naming scheme could solve that. Currently, one has to give the location of the server, and the address of the object on the server. A more general naming scheme could introduce an extra mapping layer. For instance: HREF = "xxx:CPAN" would point to the nearest mirror of the CPAN archive. It might even take unreachable servers into account. Could URNs deal with this? Abigail -- <URL: http://www.edbo.com/abigail/>
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