Re: HTML+ and browser functionality

Tony Sanders (sanders@bsdi.com)
Mon, 28 Jun 1993 19:33:56 -0500

Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) writes:
> The CONTROL panel would certainly help me. But I'd want the
> addresses of the links to be outside the document, and the
> entries in the CONTROL panel to work like entities. You'd
> say somewhere in the HEAD section that the standard links
> you wanted were NEXT PREVIOUS UPALEVEL, and only those links
> would appear in the browser (frame?).
>
> For the browser to know where NEXT PREVIOUS etc are, it needs
> a navigational info file; that file has to be referred to
> in the HEAD section where these links are specified. Does
> all this resolve to a URL type?

But then you can't control the look of the nav panel (hey <NAV>),
e.g., I want to use by bookmark icon for navigation:

<NAV>
<A HREF="/bookmark/server_bookmark/demo.html:Index_Page/demo.html:Index_Page/page2.html:Page_2">
<IMG SRC="/server/bookmark/bookmark.xbm" ISMAP></A>
</NAV>

Can you explain why you want the links to be "outside the document"?
I don't understand how this makes it better (I assume it has something
to do with autonavigation without using a server or something).
I'm not against supporting that but we need to figure out how to make
it work while still allowing complete customization of the NAV panel
(perhaps via a REL in the link <A REL="nav" HREF="http:...">???).

I have no idea where this is going. Terry, since you know what you
want can you see how this might be accomplished?

--sanders