Hi John,
>> It means that *authors* can simply do what they've always been
>> doing:
>>
>> <img src="my.gif" />
>
> Alas for this example, which now must be <object href="my.gif">.
Oh well; I was taking the example from the HLink document.
>> without having to worry about the fact that for an XLink application
>> to understand the img it actually has to look more like:
>
> [extended-link example snipped]
>
> Well, let's not overdo it: simple links work fine.
Not if you want to support longdesc as well, I believe?
> FWIW, IMHO the presentation attributes in XLink were never a good
> idea, and if they are not wanted by XHTML, they make little or no
> difference to anyone else.
Amen.
Cheers,
Jeni
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