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- readers:
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- chapter 6 of the march 15, 1993 version of "Hypertext Markup Language
- (HTML)" by Berners-Lee and Connolly discusses "Link Relationship values."
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- i have several questions about this chapter:
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- first, what is its status? are there browsers in use that recognize
- these link attribute values? have any of these attributes been promoted
- to be part of the standard? are they likely to become part of the
- standard? if so, when and under what authority?
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- second, if browsers ignore attribute values that they do not recognize, why
- must these "experimental" values be preceded with "X-".
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- third, are there any example documents showing the use of these values?
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- fouth, is the value "Made" correctly described in this chapter?
- the chapter says that Made means that the:
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- Person (etc) described by node A is author of, or is responsible for B
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- where A is the source document and B is the destination document. however,
- the chapter also says that one use for the value is "for sending
- mail to authors," and it seems to me that Made would be more useful if
- A and B were reversed in the definition above.
- that is, it seems more useful for a document to contain a pointer to a file
- describing an author where the link relationship would be "Made" with
- the understanding that the person described in B is the author of A.
- can someone clarify this (what seems to me to be a) discrepancy?
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- fifth, since we are looking for a way to connect html documents with
- their authors or responsible authorities, the value Made appears to be
- a possible approach. but, i would be interested in knowing any other
- conventions for recording such information that may be planned or under
- discussion. i would actually prefer (at least intuitively) to have
- a tag defined for the document <head> section that could be used to
- record responsibility for the document. for example, <owner> could
- be defined and have name, organization, and e-mail address as attributes.
- our browser could then pick up the owner e-mail address for posting
- comments from users reading a particular file directly to the owner.
- in particular, we might have the following tag
- <owner name="Michael Grobe" e-mail="grobe@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu">
- comments?
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- :michael grobe
- academic computing services
- the university of kansas
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