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Re: XHTML 2.0: the one bright light?? (Was: linking, 80/20)

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• Subject: Re: XHTML 2.0: the one bright light?? (Was: linking, 80/20)
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:17:25 -0700
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Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

> My main complaint about frames is that they break the URI-page
> correspondence that is supposed to be the cornerstone of the web. That
> is, on a site that uses frames no single URI can take you to the
> correct configuration of frames that displays a page below the page
> that sets up the frameset. The problem is that the framed pages have
> no idea they are being framed, which means that if you try to link to
> them they will just display without the frames.

This sounds like a compelling use case for XLink "extended" links:
you could link to a particular frame configuration by providing
one locator for the frameset plus a locator for the content
of each frame.


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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