- From: Dave Hollander <dmh@hpsgml.fc.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 09:29:48 -0700
- To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
Wayne says: > I agree with Nick that clients should be able to highlight search > results, but I suggest a simpler approach - when a server sends a > response to a search (and only the server *really* knows when this > is), it should send a keyword attribute in the HTML header, containing > the terms it thinks are relevant to the results (which may not be all > the terms specified.) While the html header would be ok, this restricts the usage to the server. Placing this info in the URL as proposed earlier would allow non-server applications and HTML documents to trigger highlighting. For example, if I wanted to point to "HTML header" in my archive of this I could use --http://me.hp.com/www-talk/doc8#HTML header-- or some similar syntax. > Then the browser can (or not) implement a simple > way to find and highlight the terms. Most (all?) browsers can already > search on text, so this is a very simple extension for them. It > relieves the server of having to muck with the actual HTML text it > sends, and uses existing mechanisms. > This proposal still leaves the burden on the client vendors. What do they think? Regards, Dave Hollander _________________________________________________________________________ Dave Hollander Hewlett-Packard Internet Technology Program Manager 3404 East Harmony Road, MS. 6U10 Electronic Sales Promotion Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 dmh@corp.hp.com 303-229-3192 Access HP - http://www.hp.com _________________________________________________________________________
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