- From: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:46:13 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
2009/6/20 Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com> wrote: >> >> Isn't that lack of control what made the web not become yet another failed >> hyperetext system a la xanadu? > > are you arguing that cross-origin image loads made it successful? I think > not, I first saw the web in 1997, so wasn't there, but from my reading of history, I understand that a general principle of the web was a lack of control over copying and linking - academia was paying for everyone's bandwidth, so there was no reason to build controls into the technology. Cross origin image linking is one application of that general principle. I'm happy to be corrected. -- Regards, Dave
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