{"id":802,"date":"2010-03-05T22:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T05:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2010-03-05T22:52:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T05:52:22","slug":"a-hyperlink-offering-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2010\/03\/a-hyperlink-offering-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hyperlink Offering revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The xml-dev mailing list has been discussing <a title=\"As of this writing, this document still lists Jamcracker as the employer of Dave Orchard...what's up with THAT?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xlink11\/\">XLink 1.1<\/a>, which after a long quiet period popped up as a &#8220;Proposed Recommendation&#8221;, which means that a largely procedural vote is is all that stands between the document becoming a full W3C Recommendation. (The previous two revisions of the document date to 2008 and 2006, respectively)<\/p>\n<p>In 2005 I <a href=\"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2005\/01.html\">called<\/a> continued development of XLink a &#8220;reanimated spectre&#8221;. But even earlier, in 2002 I wrote one of the rare fiction pieces on xml.com, <a title=\"A Hyperlink Offering\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xml.com\/pub\/a\/2002\/09\/25\/linkoffering.html\">A Hyperlink Offering<\/a>, which using the format of a Carrollian dialog between Tortoise and Achilles, explained a few of the problems with the XLink specification. It ended with this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What if the W3C pushed for Working Groups to use a future XLink, just not XLink <em>1.0<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, this version has minor improvements. In particular, &#8220;simple&#8221; links are simpler now&#8211;you can drop an xlink:href attribute where you please and it&#8217;s now legit. The spec used to REQUIRE additional xlink:type=&#8221;simple&#8221; attributes all over the place. But it&#8217;s still awkward to use for multi-ended links, and now even farther away from the mainstream hyperlinking aspects of HTML5, which for all of its faults, embodies the grossly predominant description of linking on the web.<\/p>\n<p>So in many ways, my longstanding disappointment with XLink is that it only ever became a tiny sliver of what it could have been. Dashed visions of <a href=\"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/how-xanadu-works\/\">Xanadu<\/a> dance through my head. -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The xml-dev mailing list has been discussing XLink 1.1, which after a long quiet period popped up as a &#8220;Proposed Recommendation&#8221;, which means that a largely procedural vote is is all that stands between the document becoming a full W3C Recommendation. 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