Re: [xml-dev] Xlink Isn't Dead

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

Ari Krupnik wrote:

> Isn't that what killed the idea of XML as something you can directly
> display in a browser? That XML+CSS gave you everything HTML gave you
> except, you know, links? 

Not really. I think what killed that vision was poor browser support. 
Not that the lack of links wasn't a problem; just that we never really 
got far enough for it to become a practical issue. That may be starting 
to change.

I suspect the working group could have pulled off a really nice 80/20 
solution by simply defining an xml:href attribute and declaring victory. 
  HTML won over competing hypertext technologies in large part by making 
links much, much simpler. Sadly XML didn't really learn that lesson.

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