- From: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-html-0003@earth.li>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:06:07 +0000 (UTC)
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
At 2001-10-15T21:08-0000, Dave Hodder wrote:- > I would like to recommend that the following link types are added to > section 6.12 of the HTML 4 Recommendation > <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-links>: This is unlikely to happen: HTML is essentially frozen now, in favour of XHTML. > Parent > Refers to the document above the present document in a hierarchical > collection of documents. I can see this being useful. The closest at the moment is "Contents", which does not always apply. > First > Refers to the first document in a linear sequence of documents. May > be used in conjunction with "Next", "Prev" and "Last". This exists as "Start". > Last > Refers to the last document in a linear sequence of documents. May > be used in conjunction with "First", "Next" and "Prev". But this does not exist. I feel it ought to, for symmetry, though its usefulness is perhaps rather limited. > Search > Refers to a document for searching material related to a collection > of documents. Interestingly, this is mentioned in HTML 3.2, but not in any subsequent version. > Author > Refers to a contact URI for the document author or authors. > Typically this may be a "mailto:" URL. I think this is where people start muttering about metadata and RDF. Tim Bagot
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