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Are hyperlinks presentation or content?

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• Subject: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:47:57 -0700

On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 01:29 PM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:

>> I also would like the links to work.
>
> Opera lets you do that quite easily today using CSS for both the 
> DocBook
> display and the linking functionality (extensions to CSS), actually.  
> No
> need for more.
>
That depends on whether you believe hyperlinks are structure (which is 
generally believed should be marked-up inline) or presentation (which 
is generally believed should be decoupled from content).  I tend to the 
former, obviously, but I suspect this is a debate that will outlive us 
all.  -Tim

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