Vance from Seth Russell on 2001-04-13 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from April 2001)

From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:20:10 -0700
To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "Ken MacLeod" <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>
Message-ID: <006201c0c42d$3bbba6e0$b17ba8c0@c1457248a.sttls1.wa.home.com>

From: "Ken MacLeod" <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>

> "Lee Jonas" <ljonas@acm.org> writes:
>
> > You don't have to overload an identifier to vance a web page containing
>
> Where does the term "vance" come from?  I can't find a reference.  I
> assume since the words "access" or "retrieve" are not being used, that
> "vance" has a slightly different meaning than those.

I coined it:)   It means to move your attention from an arrow to it's
object.

before vance:

          attention
              |
              |
------------------------> (object)

after vance:

                                         attention
                                              |
                                              |
------------------------> (object)

It would be a method on the attention object.  Note the conceptual
similarities to dereference.

Seth

Received on Friday, 13 April 2001 11:23:23 UTC