[WEB4LIB] Linking Arms, Arming LINKs

[Peter C. Gorman]

At 8:18 AM -0700 7/5/01, Thomas Dowling wrote:
>I invite other webmasters to do the same, and to ask vendors if they
>plan to follow this HTML standard for navigation.  The worst that can
>happen is that you spend an afternoon reacquainting yourself with how
>your pages are laid out.  The possible benefit is a boost to your
>site's usability for users with supporting browsers and the beginnings
>of an additional way to think about page navigation.

Call me an idealist, but I've been using simple <link>s in HTML-based 
text projects for some time, knowing (OK, hoping) support would 
eventually come along. If nothing else, it can encode enough 
information about a site's structure to assist reprocessing into some 
other format, automatic generation of site maps, etc. A couple of 
examples can be seen at <http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/>
and <http://parenthood.library.wisc.edu/>. The interior pages have 
more <link>s than the home pages.

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