- 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.
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