Conceptually, yes...your call for a more unified handling of links
in HTML definitely got me fired up! I even looked seriously at
making it work in a more literal way (i.e., enhancing <A> and <LINK>
to cover all the linking needs of HTML). It was an intriguiging
thought exercise, but apparently a bit too radical for the real
world. :-) HyTime proposals for HTML have met a similar fate...
> I've since come to think that for Java et al., maybe the
> best thing (in HTTP) would be a GET request with the HTTP
> request containing a message body.
But that's server side specialization. The initialization of
scripts most naturally happens on the client side (although you
_could_ do it on the server in a hacky way).
Of course, there's no reason you couldn't make use of both server-
and client-side specialization, for different purposes, as in
url?server-stuff#client-stuff
(yes, holding to my previous ideological position on '?' and '#' :-).
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