- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:55:17 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> > Could we use a link in the head that goes to a static (cacheable) file
> > for site-wide navigation? I know you could use a server side include,
> > but it seems kludgy, as you are still sending (potentially) quite a lot
> > of HTML with every page.
I believe this is what the purpose of several of the original link
types was, and to me it would be much cleaner than duplicating
menus on every page.
>
> There are at least 2 major problems with using technique like that.
> 1. Backwards compatibility.
> 2. Such a major conceptual change in the way pages are linked is
> unlikely to catch on significantly in the real world.
3. I would result in uniform behaviour (for a single browser) across
sites, which would be rejected by designers because it frustrated
branding.
Received on Tuesday, 21 November 2006 08:33:21 UTC