- From: Paul Denning <pauld@mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:13:12 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
At 08:39 PM 2003-12-09, Graham wrote: >Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >>It is *not* a good idea to confuse a reference to a resource with >>instructions as to what to do with it. >>... >>The fact that you might want to poll a living document to see how it >>changes and the type of data in the document are really orthoganal, and >>should be kept that way in the protocol and the UI. > >Then surely the problem here is the architecture of links themselves? The >problem being that they only serve as pointers to a resource, they give no >clue as to what to do with it. As you say, how to use a resource is >independent of its document format, and of its location. In most cases, >having a default action for a combination of type and location has been >more than adequate. But there is sometimes a need to change the default >action clicking a link produces - a example of this already in use is >links that specify they are to be opened in new windows. This all sounds >like something you might have discussed before, though. > >Graham Parks > Perhaps rddl:purpose should be used and modify browsers to dispatch to the RSS aggregator subscription function if the rddl:purpose="http://example.org/rddl/purpose/rss/subscription". Paul
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