- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
- Date: 26 Sep 1997 14:38:34 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Others keep telling me that HTML 3, in spite of being an advance over it's successors, is dead, so I didn't count FIG. HTML3 is still widely used by editing systems. Or so they claim :-) Possibly I misused the terminology, but the rest are not what I'd call sources for hyperlinks. They are references to objects related to the current document. The user doesn't get a button on the page to go fetch those objects. There's nothing about a link which says it must be instantiated by a button. An IMG (and an OBJECT and a few others) are links which get traversed automatically as the document loads. LINK itself produces buttons in Mosaic and Lynx. But yeah - it'd be nice if authors were allowed to specify that all of those were dynamic, and should be fetched only by explicit action by the user. In XML you can. ///Peter
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