Re: Apples ==> Styles, Oranges ==> HT (was Re: I come not to praise HTML, blah blah....Bubblenomics)

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 26 1999 - 17:03:33 MST

'What is your name?' 'Michael M. Butler.' 'Do you deny having written
the following?':

> The deficiencies of HTML go much deeper, until and unless the embedded link
> problems (which are acute) are solved. Several interim solutions have been
> proposed. Perhaps one of those, or something yet unheard of, will
> eventually gain wide acceptance. Until them, HTML is bad, style sheets or
> no. But it's what's out there. That, and Augment.

Actually, as I see it, embedded linking isn't a problem, even for Xanadu
systems, since a meta-document describing what forward-links a given
document contains can be quickly and easily generated for a given
embedded-linking document.

Supplement this with anonymous micropayments, such that I can broadcast
publicly (and mutually profitably) "Hey! Who has a link to this
document?" and I've got a functioning backlinking system. It's permanent,
too, in the sense that so long as someone somewhere who's monitoring those
broadcasts keeps a copy of a document that links to the document in
question, that backlink keeps on functioning.

If bandwidth becomes an issue, you can have paid agents whose job it is to
watch the broadcasts for you and let you know when your document is
needed.

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings

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