On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Todd Daniel Woodward wrote:
> If I'm able to set score, expiry, type, and other variables
> individually for each symlink, then I could link to one
> article from multiple pages and have different settings for
> that article through it's symlinks.
The problem would be what fields would follow the original,
and what fields would be properties of the symlink itself.
Making this non-rigid will make effective sorting of
links & articles together *very* hard. And making it
rigid is going to make someone unhappy at some point.
I can see the score being generally useful as a symlink
property, but the expiry and type usually not.
> This means moving from a passive symlink to an ACTIVE
> symlink. (Or have two different types of symlinks.) Passive
> in the traditional sense that it just points to something
> somewhere else, and active being that the symlink has some
> intelligence/features build into it.
Can you elaborate on this? I think the passive symlink is what we've
been discussing so far (with or without attached properties), but I
don't know what you would have in mind for active symlinks.
Bye,
Emile
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