Re: SPEC - Description field in WWWAnchor

Andy Norris ([email protected])
Tue, 25 Apr 1995 10:20:40 -0400

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At 09:29 AM 4/25/95, Andrew C. Esh wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Apr 1995 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Hi Anthony,
>> > instead of seeing
>> > http://www.tony.com/vrml/house.vrml
>> > in the status area you saw
>> > Go to Tony's House
>> > It seems so much friendlier!
>> I think thats the right way to go. Its an easy extension whit much effort.
>> The URL message is just kryptic for the ordinary user.
>
>The main problem with this is that if "Go to Tony's House" is all the
>information you have, you can't use it to make the conversion to
>"http://www.tony.com/vrml/house.vrml". You will get a lot of users lost
>on the Web unless you have a simple way to allow them to save both parts
>of these links. Here's an example: How easy is it to find a Web Page you
>recently visited, if all you have is the <TITLE>? You can only do it if
>your Bookmark List saves the real URL. I think it should be left up to
>the user which one is displayed.

If the information is present, a browser could choose to implement both.

--Andy
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