- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:16:20 -0800
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > > > Without GET you don't have hyperlinking. > > This is very debatable. HyperText s roughly defined as traversing an > information resource in a pattern different from that of it's inherent > structure. You don't need GET for that, what you need is a traversal > function.... more like a MOVETO or JUMPTO. I don't need to GET a page, > because I already have the data. You don't need GET in closed-system hyperlinking. But I was talking about the Web and I didn't expect that the statement would be applied to another context. > It's also important to remember that hyperlinks, in a general sense, > are much richer than GET typically allows. I didn't say that GET gives you everything you'll ever want from hyperlinking. I said that you need to be able to GET data to traverse hyperlinks (to data you don't already have). Paul Prescod
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