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- On types of links: Link types can descibe
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- -- hints at presentation (Footnote, in-line, embed, automatic or
- on demand, print this if you print me, don't search this if
- you search me, etc etc)
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- -- semantics of the documents (a is a previous version of b, etc)
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- -- semantics of THAT DESCIBED by the document, eg
- "The W3 software" is a part of "the W3 project" where the
- 'is part of' in fact applies to the unquoted things, not the
- documents. There is something on link types on the web in
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- http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/DesignIssues/LinkTypes.html
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- On areas and points: No, the WWW links are not (in general) points
- they are areas. In the broad sense they can be any object within
- the document, as identified by the anchor ID. In the specific
- case of HTML, they are areas which have a beginning and an end.
- In the case of the actual W3 software, noone can handle
- overlapping anchors because the text object underneath isn't powerful
- enough. There is also a problem showing overlapping source anchors
- (buttons) to the user. But in principle, there is no reason'
- why one shouldn't have overlapping anchors, or at least
- nested ones.
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- But not now.
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- Tim
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