- From: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:17:49 -0700
- To: "'Roy T. Fielding'" <fielding@apache.org>, <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: "'Ian B. Jacobs'" <ij@w3.org>, <www-tag@w3.org>
What do you mean by "active" versus "descriptive" links? I have kind of thought that "hyper" is associated with generally human targetted. XLink, intended for hyperlinking, has "show" and "actuate" axis because of the "hyper" part. Cheers, Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: www-tag-request@w3.org > [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of > Roy T. Fielding > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 3:50 PM > To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com > Cc: Ian B. Jacobs; www-tag@w3.org > Subject: Re: Arch Doc: 18 Sep: abstract > > > > The research community uses the term "hypertext" to encompass all > forms of interaction with information through active links. The > term hypermedia is sometimes used as well, though much less now > than a decade ago. We usually differentiate between active and > descriptive links when talking architecture. Hypertext and links > are therefore not synonymous. > > ....Roy > >
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