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The author describes his efforts to find the information in existing sources, e.g. the HTML spec and DTD. He didn't manage to, and experts who were party to th
by vdm 16y ago
The author describes his efforts to find the information in existing sources, e.g. the HTML spec and DTD. He didn't manage to, and experts who were party to the original discussions pitched in with comments.
You should link to the search that provides the same results. You can even use lmgtfy.com if you're feeling bitchy. I'd say Ryan Tomayko knows how to use Google; did you do any background on him?
By your logic, Wikipedia should just link to searches too; but then it wouldn't be Wikipedia.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agohttp://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Ahref http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Ahref 4th one down "hypertext reference ..." unless I guessed wrong?
- gintas 16y agoYou did guess wrong - it seems to be 'head reference' actually. As the article explains, the original links were conceptualized with two anchors, the 'head' and the 'tail', and 'href' is the reference to the head of the link.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoDon't tell me I'm going to have to RTFA?
- pasbesoin 16y agoIIRC, with respect to hypertext as a concept rather than specific HTML specs/implementations, hyperlinks were sometimes envisioned (implemented?) as being bi-directional references. As such, you needed an element on each end of the reference that pointed to the other end. In thinking of "href" as "head reference", you are providing a URI (possibly also a target URL) from your source document -- the tail -- to the intended destination, the head. I'm unclear what this looks like from the head's perspective. Is the tail/head distinction absolute, or relative and dependent upon the current document's perspective? If absolute, then the tail might be viewed as the link's instantiator.
- Terretta 16y agoThe author says 'after 10 years' with HTML, which isn't very long. Ask someone working in hypertext long enough to know what VERONICA stands for -- they'll know what HREF means! But funny you mention Wikipedia. Looks like it has the answer: > with the attribute "href" (HREF is an abbreviation for "Hypertext REFerence"[3]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink > [3] Tim Berners-Lee, Making a Server ("HREF" is for "hypertext reference") http://www.w3.org/Provider/ServerWriter.html http://www.w3.org/Provider/ServerWriter.html
- rtomayko 16y agoFunny how these things work: http://img.skitch.com/20100806-n839s48kxx3gq6ae3m7ru45t6j.png http://img.skitch.com/20100806-n839s48kxx3gq6ae3m7ru45t6j.pn... http://img.skitch.com/20100806-dy2ghicjxgac7dpmdd2pwhdntc.png http://img.skitch.com/20100806-dy2ghicjxgac7dpmdd2pwhdntc.pn...