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The thing html missed out on (which was part of the original vision, to be fair) was using the same program for editing and viewing.
by lukasb 4y ago
The thing html missed out on (which was part of the original vision, to be fair) was using the same program for editing and viewing.
- gardenfelder 4y agoAnd bi-directional links by way of Ted Nelson
- somat 4y agoBi-directional links are a non-starter from the perspective of having an autonomous distributed system. Think about it this way, would you be happy if any random scammer could place links into your web page, well, with bidirectional links, now they can.
- tomjen3 4y agoCertainly, I wouldn't want spammers to be able to insert links into my text. However, if there was an option in my browser to see who had linked to the content, sorted by some reasonable measure, such as page-rank, don't you think that would be a good thing for the web?
- Tagbert 4y agoThe HTML way for that is HTTP Referer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#:~:text=In%20HTTP%2C%20%22%20Referer%20%22%20%28a%20misspelling%20of,web%20page%20can%20see%20where%20the%20request%20originated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#:~:text=In%20HTTP... Your server would need to log and report on those entries. Of course, for privacy and other reasons, this is probably not dependable any more.
- tkk23 4y agoNetscape had it for a long time.
- doctor_eval 4y agoMy recollection is the original graphical browsers were all editors. I’m pretty sure for example ViolaWWW was an editor, and directly referenced HyperCard too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW