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robin.berjon@expway.fr (Robin Berjon) writes:
>> robin.berjon@expway.fr (Robin Berjon) writes:
>>>The ability to understand links without knowledge of the
>>>vocabulary seems to me to be of high value.
>>
>> If it was, people might do it.
>
>It's way too early to tell, compound documents are still rare. Besides,
>people haven't exactly been given a chance.
There is an element of chicken-and-egg to it. Still, even when I was
presenting on XLink regularly, I never had anyone ask about this. I'm
aware of very few XLink link-harvesters, though I think STEP UK had one
long ago.
>>>The ability to stuff embedding and hyperlinking on the same element
>>>appears to me to be of fairly little value.
>>
>> To you, perhaps. To me, it seems like basic functionality.
>
>Would you mind to expose in which ways stuffing those two
>functionalities onto the a single element is basic? To me inclusion is
>basic, but as I said the ability to include no more than one document
>at any given point is a silly limitation (and enough to render the
>feature useless to me).
I suspect we can argue about "basic", but to me this:
<img src="thumbnail.jpg" href="fullpicture.jpg" />
makes far more sense than:
<a href="fullpicture.jpg"><img src="thumbnail.jpg" /></a>
I don't see the need for two elements to represent that functionality.
It seems to clutter language design and complicate document structures
to no particular purpose. (And yes, I use that pattern constantly. See
http://simonstl.com/dryden/archives/000095.html for an example using my
house.)
>> I think there are multiple communities of hypertext practice out
there,
>> and XLink, so far as I can tell, has proven optimal (heck, even
>> exciting) for none.
>
>That's another debate altogether -- XLink may not be sexy, but at least
>it's there. To misquote: "generic linking is like sex, even when it's
>bad it's still pretty good".
Generic linking is pretty much just bad at this point, IMHO. I think it
may be time to obliterate the notion that hypertext should be
implemented as generic functionality across a wide range of projects.
Bad sex is not pretty good, IMHO.
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