- From: Chris Maden <crism@ora.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 10:00:55 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
[Mike Meyer] > > From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com> > > LINK and IMG can call in data. META can do 'refresh' in some > > browsers and load a new page. > > Right. But those aren't sources for hyperlinks - there is nothing > on the page the user can push to fetch them. A few browsers provider > elements in THER guis for some LINK tags, but that's about it. > > Those things aren't what I'd call sources of hyperlinks. I used > those words purposely, as I wanted to distinguish them from things > that the browser fetches as part of loading a page without the user > selecting a link/button in the HTML. You've been poisoned by the shallow excuse for hypertext on the Web. A link is a connection between two resources. The <img> tag is a link to a resource, usually (but not always!) downloaded automatically and displayed in-line. If image loading is turned off, or if Lynx is used, the image must be explicitly requested. Similarly, <link> and <meta> also define connections between resources, and are thus links. (If <link> isn't a link, then something's very wrong in the world...) It's a little more questionable whether <isindex> is a link; it defines a behavior of sorts, and defines the nature of a relationship, but not really a link. See the discussions of link taxonomy in RFC 1866 (HTML 2.0)[1] and the XLL draft[2]. -Chris [1] <URL:ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1866.txt> [2] <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-link-970731.html> -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek>
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