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Re: linking, 80/20

• To: simonstl@s... (Simon St.Laurent)
• Subject: Re: linking, 80/20
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 15:55:06 -0400 (EDT)
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• In-reply-to: <r01050300-1015-8BC65466B21911D683CE0003937A08C2@[192.168.124.21]> from "Simon St.Laurent" at Aug 17, 2002 03:43:04 PM

Simon St.Laurent scripsit:

> Allowing href on everything - whether or not it has the unnecessary
> xlink: namespace slapped on it - is a much larger advance in making
> hypertext broadly useful than any attempt to rewrite XHTML to take
> advantage of complex links.

I agree, actually.  But it wouldn't cost them anything to use
xlink:href (and a #FIXED attribute of xlink:type="simple") and it
would make generalized link harvesters that much more useful.

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