Re: indexes as links rather than documents
Dan Connolly (connolly@pixel.convex.com)
Tue, 10 Nov 92 22:12:50 CST
Message-Id: <9211110412.AA18354@pixel.convex.com>
To: Edward Vielmetti <emv@msen.com>
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch, wais-talk@quake.think.com
Subject: Re: indexes as links rather than documents
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 92 23:05:12 EST."
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 22:12:50 CST
From: Dan Connolly <connolly@pixel.convex.com>
> I keep running across interesting bits of evidence that tell me that
> indexes should be a type of link rather than a type of document.
>
>Careful, representing WAIS servers is tricky. In the gopher world,
>the wais .src files are totally hidden from the client, and the links
>look just like any other index
I can see how this is relavent to the syntax of WWW addresses for
WAIS indexes, but I don't see how it relates to my argument that
indexes should be links rather than nodes (i.e. being an index should
be an attribute of an anchor element, not of a document).
I didn't mean to suggest any changes in the WWW addressing scheme.
If my examples don't fit the current syntax, just pretend they do.
Dan