>I've been toying for a while with the idea that link degradation
>is the biggest problem with http. "At what point do webmasters
>spend 168 hours a week updating links?" Tim Berners-Lee says
>there's work in hand on the question, but has been too busy (or
>circumspect) to say more.
He is probably referring to HTTPng, which takes on board
a lot of concepts introduced by Hyper-G. A lot of people are
suggesting that W3O has not been as prominent as it should
have been recently. I suspect the pressure from Netscape/Microsoft
has caused some difficulties!
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>Given that I've not heard of Hyper-G, it can't be famous :-)
Well, I noticed them around 18 months ago (and put a link
into our home pages for them).
Then again, lots of people in the USA think the Web was invented
by NCSA. CERN? Who are they?
>So: does anyone have any pointers to work on building a
>maintainable http-based web? I'd include bi-directional links in
>that. (Aside; I vowed to have all the footnotes in a 250-k EU
>document I was html-ing refer back to the text. Shortly
>thereafter, I vowed to take up market gardening instead...)
Another product introduced by Adobe is SiteMill, which
does this (but at the moment, I think it Mac only). I
believe Oracle also have servers which work from the database,
hence ensuring link integrity. At the "high end" of the market,
this has been a concern for quite some time now.
Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY;
[log in to unmask]; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804.
URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/
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