• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: [Fwd: The problems with Xlink for integration langu ages]
• From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...>
• Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:00:04 +0100
• Cc: tpassin@c... (Thomas B. Passin), xml-dev@l...
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• Reply-to: Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...>

Hi John,

>> It means that *authors* can simply do what they've always been
>> doing:
>> 
>>   <img src="my.gif" />
>
> Alas for this example, which now must be <object href="my.gif">.

Oh well; I was taking the example from the HLink document.

>> without having to worry about the fact that for an XLink application
>> to understand the img it actually has to look more like:
>
> [extended-link example snipped]
>
> Well, let's not overdo it: simple links work fine.

Not if you want to support longdesc as well, I believe?

> FWIW, IMHO the presentation attributes in XLink were never a good
> idea, and if they are not wanted by XHTML, they make little or no
> difference to anyone else.

Amen.

Cheers,

Jeni

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