Re: Generalizing Banners

In message <3036E492.2781@mozilla.com>, Lou Montulli writes:
> Currently in the HTML 3 draft is a great new tag called BANNER 
> that allows the  document author to embed another HTML document within the
> current document.
 
I don't believe that's quite what BANNER was intended to do at all.

> Espescially if the banners can load 
> independently of each other and can effect the contents of the others.

Provision for mechanisms to do this has been around even before IMG
was proposed!  Check [1].  Tim Berners-Lee's original concept for the
hypertext reference allows a much more general and flexible specification
for presentation methods (which i tried to taxonomize in [2]).

[1] http://gummo.stanford.edu/hypermail/.www-talk-1993q1.messages/178.html
[2] http://www.acl.lanl.gov/HTML-WG/html-wg-95q2.messages/1230.html

On Sun, 20 Aug 1995, Daniel W. Connolly wrote:
>
> The idioms should express more general constraints: "Whenever you
> display doc X, also keep doc Y visible/navigable." Look at
> the <IMG alt="alt" src="image"> markup as shorthand for:
> 
> 	<a href="image" rel="embed present">alt</a>
> 
> That hints at how link relationships can be used to build window
> configurations as above. To achieve layout2, I'd
> use a combination of link relationships and stylesheets, ala:
> 
[...stylesheet...]
> 
> 	<a href="Doc2" rel="present" id="DOC2">
> 	<a href="Doc2" rel="present" id="DOC3">

This is exactly how i'd like to see it done.  Using IDs you can indicate
with REL just how and in what areas you would prefer links to be presented.

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