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At 08:17 PM 9/22/2006, Alexander Johannesen wrote: >The word "style" and its "meaning", I suppose. :) To me, style is >presentation and as such only a part of an application of something. >Links is more than presentation, they speak of things "larger" than >that. That's all. Yes, and it's a part of the application that's woefully unrepresented. >>tricks? I'm willing to bet it's quite a few. An example: the Flickr >>sidebar at http://www.shelter.nu/. > >Not sure I follow you here. What scripting tricks? What is the *trick*? I mean this code on your site: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.flickr.com/badge_code_v2.gne?show_name=1&count=5&display=random&size=t&layout=v&source=user&user=93544306%40N00"></script> How much work went into creating the Javascript to display that sidebar? Wouldn't it have been much nicer to simply say: <flickrBar userID="93544306" /> And have CSS do the rest by intelligent placing an embedded, "onLoad" link? ><confused> Which part of "80/20 of linking" doesn't xhtml:href cover? ></confused> Actuation and display of anything beyond single, unidirectional links. Examples: A menubar link - one click gives you multiple choices. Sounds like a multi-ended resource to me! A document compiled from multiple document fragments - like what people are doing with inclusion scripts all over the place, specifically in CMS applications. Embedding dynamic content into a document - like your Flickr sidebar. When we think of rendering links, we need to think beyond "click and you go there," and we need to think beyond <a>. When defining where the 80/20 is on links, we need to look at how resources are being used today -- not how <a> links are being used, but <img>, <object> and more to the point, the host of scripting tricks commonly used on the Web. --->Ben
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