Re: Server control over history?

Daniel W. Connolly ([email protected])
Tue, 15 Feb 1994 20:09:20 --100

In message <[email protected]>, Dave_Raggett writes:
>I guess we could add actions to:
>
> a) push a marker to the current history stack position
> b) pop a marker and clear the history stack accordingly
>
>These could be implemented using a couple of new attributes for links.
>Another idea is to encourage people to use <LINK> rather than <A> for such
>"Go Home" links. This means that such links couldn't be scrolled off the window.
>For this to be attractive, we also need to allow images for links, perhaps by
>adding a SRC attribute to LINK. What do people think of this?

I think a whole lot of folks have already thought a whole lot about
problems like this, and they thought this stuff was important enough
to standardize on.

They call their work HyTime.

We should take a look at it and see if we can't borrow from what they
did.

For example, it should be trivial to derive this LINK element from the
hytime ilink architectural form. See

Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: 11 May 1993 09:36:53 -0400 (19930511.133653)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml,alt.hypertext
Subject: Re: WWW and Hytime (was Explicit Linking is Impossible)

at:

wais://ifi.uio.no/comp.text.sgml/TEXT/11048/1=ifi.uio.no%3A210;2=/local/ftp/lib/wais/comp.text.sgml;3=0%2011048%20/local/ftp/pub/SGML/comp.text.sgml/by.msgid/19930511.074728.98%40almaden.ibm.com;4=ifi.uio.no%3A210;5=/local/ftp/lib/wais/comp.text.sgml;6=0%2011048%20/local/ftp/pub/SGML/comp.text.sgml/by.msgid/19930511.074728.98%40almaden.ibm.com;7=%00;

for one way of doing it.

Dan