Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote:
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.
Fragment identifiers depend on the MIME type, thus it's in scope for the
HTML WG (which is in charge of text/html and application/xhtml+xml).
...but do consider existing work in this area, such as XPointer...
BR, Julian
