I want something like this, maybe not this syntax but the semantics:
<HEAD>
<TITLE>document</TITLE>
<LINK rel="up" href=...>
<LINK rel="prev" href=...>
<LINK rel="next" href=...>
</HEAD>
<NAV>
<A REF="up"><IMG SRC="/img/up.gif"></A>
<A REF="prev"><IMG SRC="/img/prev.gif"></A>
...
</NAV>
This lets you specify how the navigation panel looks so the browser doesn't
have to grok special link relationships (up, prev, next) for this purpose.
I think this is a big win because if you hardcode up,prev,next that will
pretty much squelch any development on new navigation models. I want to
be able to pop up a compass rose for navigating map data, or the image of
a book to turn pages etc. Each class of document has it's own navigation
needs and I think hardcoding this in the browser is a bad idea. This
could be done with having a bunch of rel attributes and having the browser
select the look based on the available LINK's but I don't think anyone
is likely to implement that and it still doesn't let you create nav's on
the fly. I don't have the "solution" I'm just presenting the problem
that I would like to solve (dynamic nav panels).
Is anyone else interested in being able to build the look of the
navigation panel on the fly? This could mesh quite nicely with
the LINK rel stuff if done right.
--sanders