Re: Client-side searching proposal

Roy T. Fielding ([email protected])
Thu, 26 Jan 1995 01:25:48 +0100


Joe English wrote:

> Perhaps a similar syntax would be appropriate for client-side
> interpretation of URL fragment identifiers:
>
> http://foo.com/dir/foo.txt#lines=10-20
> ^
>
> The presence or absense of an '=' sign in the fragment would
> determine whether the fragment is an extended locator
> or an anchor name (or element ID in HTML 3).

I prefer this syntax as well -- it is both clearer and
more extensible than using a special character to indicate each
possible use for a fragment.

.....Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
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<URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>