Re: Web trends

broccol@csdsun1a.arlut.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey)

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 13:03:55 CDT
From: broccol@csdsun1a.arlut.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey)
Message-id: <9309071803.AA08242@csdsun1a.arlut.utexas.edu>
To: sanders@bsdi.com, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Web trends
Status: RO

It seems that what would be really nice would be to have some kind of
programmatic interface, so that a document becomes ever-so-slightly
differently structured when the user has come from a particular
place to the current document.  Perhaps links could have a *simple*
programming language associated with them (if-then-else, variables), and
clicking on a link could set a variable that could be tested for at
a later time.  It would seem that this would give maximum generality,
even though it would be a serious divergence from the current model, requiring
significantly greater interaction with browsers.  Such interaction could
easily be made optional, however.. ^_^

Are there any good uses for having href/link's that do something different
according to the user's navigation history that is not addressed by the
LINK spec?  I confess to being largely ignorant of LINKs, but I wanted
to throw out this notion..

Jonathan Abbey
broccol@csdsun1a.arlut.utexas.edu
Applied Research Laboratories
The University of Texas
Austin, Texas