Re: REL and REV attributes (Was: More comments on HTML 3.0)

Alex Hopmann (hopmann@holonet.net)
Thu, 27 Apr 95 16:03:26 EDT

>> > > >The problem is that ad-hoc RELs with no
>> > > > semantics are what we have now -- and the result is that hardly
>> > > > anyone uses REL.
>
>Can we not agree on a small set of generic, useful, non- ad-hoc link
>RELs? E.g" Next, Previous, Table of Contents, Index and maybe even
>Author (although I am less fond of the latter, as I can see it leading
>to lots of spurious e-mail message .... :-o )
>
>These all seem pretty non-controversial, and obvious to implement.
Can I suggest a couple:

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I will be happy to explain these if their meanings are non-obvious.

Alex Hopmann
ResNova Software, Inc.
hopmann@holonet.net