Re: LINKs

"Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre" <P.LISTER@mail.cranfield.ac.uk>

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Subject: Re: LINKs
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Aug 93 08:35:57 BST." <"xss001.ccc.374:11.07.93.07.38.23"@mail.cranfield.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 93 10:02:13 BST
From: "Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre" <P.LISTER@mail.cranfield.ac.uk>
Status: RO

> Because they haven't been on the top of any volunteer developer's
> priority list yet, and because nobody's yet offered to pay a volunteer
> developer to raise the priority on them (or, even for the most part,
> suggested that it's more important than a hundred and one other
> things)...

Authors won't bother to use them until browsers support them, and
browser developers won't regard it as high priority until authors use
them in real docs. Once the vicious circle is broken by those nice
people at NCSA, I guess they'll become widespread.

Peter Lister                                    p.lister@cranfield.ac.uk
Computer Centre,
Cranfield Institute of Technology,        Voice: +44 234 754200 ext 2828
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