At 07:23 PM 9/22/2006, Alexander Johannesen wrote:
>My biggest problem with Xlink were the reclarifications of something
>we all knew from HTML. Why impose a whole standard for linking when
>most people would be happy as larry with xml:href or instead just used
>xhtml:href? 80/20 :)
That's the common misconception. How many webpages do you go
to where basic link functionality has been extended via scripting
tricks? I'm willing to bet it's quite a few. An example: the Flickr
sidebar at http://www.shelter.nu/.
xhtml:href does -not- win us the 80/20. That's part of my
point. A lot of people are doing a lot of work, having to wrestle
with making it cross-platform, and it could be solved with XLinks in
a standardized and relatively simple way.
-->Ben
