RE: [xml-dev] Slightly off, but... was: XUL appears to be dead, istheresome other standard that should be looked at

At 9:38 AM +0200 7/10/02, bryan wrote:

>I was just wondering since I don't do as much with Mozilla as I should,
>but if I remember correctly it's xlink implementation was all simple
>xlinks and didn't give any benefits beyond the basic html a link. Is
>that incorrect? If so can someone give me a succinct description of the
>xlink benefits Mozilla has above simple linking?

Your recollection is correct; simple links only. It's not exactly 
clear what a user interface for an extended link would look like or 
what it would mean.
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