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

[Ben Trafford <ben@prodigal.ca>]

At 07:23 PM 9/22/2006, Alexander Johannesen wrote:
>My biggest problem with Xlink were the reclarifications of something
>we all knew from HTML. Why impose a whole standard for linking when
>most people would be happy as larry with xml:href or instead just used
>xhtml:href? 80/20 :)

         That's the common misconception. How many webpages do you go 
to where basic link functionality has been extended via scripting 
tricks? I'm willing to bet it's quite a few. An example: the Flickr 
sidebar at http://www.shelter.nu/.

         xhtml:href does -not- win us the 80/20. That's part of my 
point. A lot of people are doing a lot of work, having to wrestle 
with making it cross-platform, and it could be solved with XLinks in 
a standardized and relatively simple way.

-->Ben