- From: Michael Mealling <Michael.Mealling@oit.gatech.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 14:08:19 -0400 (EDT)
- To: jamesc@harlequin.co.uk (James Casey)
- Cc: Michael.Mealling@oit.gatech.edu, www-talk@www10.w3.org
James Casey said this: > At 15:59 17/8/95, Michael Mealling wrote: > >I'm sitting here hacking Mosaic code so that it can understand URCs and > >it occurs to me that a very powerful addition to the Anchor tag would > >be a META attribute that specifies meta-information that is not within > >the document itself. > > But this has the problem that the author of a document has no control over > the meta information associated with the document. Having no control is a desirable thing in many places: Peer review of documents third party review for appropriate material for minors cataloging by librarians electronic corpora > Having meta information > specified in the HEAD as an associated LINK'ed resource would seem to be > the correct way to do this. Ok, from my reading of the 2.0 and 3.0 specs I see no way to do the function I want. I want to be able to get the meta-information for a given resource BEFORE I actually get that resource. If you put the LINK in the HEAD then you have to get that resources head before you can find out anything about it. > This is not the proper place to put meta-information about a document, but > perhaps to put meta-information about the link itself ( whatever that > might mean ??? ) So where would you put information about whats on the other side of the link before you get it? -MM -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Life is a game. Someone wins and someone loses. Get used to it. <BR> <HR><A HREF="http://www.gatech.edu/michael.html">Michael Mealling</A>
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