Am Mittwoch, den 22.07.2009, 10:38 +0000 schrieb ppj: > The Goal: Links w/o anchors. > > The Strategy: Two stage process. > 1) get an extra 'search' attribute on to the <a> tag in HTML so that we > have: > e.g. <a href='...' search='...'>link text</a> > 2) If there's take-up, then later on push for adding a date-time of > creation attribute to <a>. This will add link history to the internet. > > > The way (1) works is someone sticks the basic href to a page in the href > attribute, and then sticks the text they want to link to in the search > attr. The browser fetches the page, and as a secondary action (at user > option) searches for the > text. The simple option is that it just searches for the plain string, > maybe later it can do all the fancy approximate match stuff that I put > in the XPunt prototype in '06/07. > Since we know those search strings don't have to be very long to find > the unique location, it shouldn't burden the document text very much. >
An additional element seems very hackish; this likely is something better brought up in the context of an URI working group. I would also recommend talking to implementors directly. Cheers -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
