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Erann Gat

More options May 4 2000, 3:00 am

Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp

From: g...@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)

Date: 2000/05/04

Subject: Re: LISP and AI

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In article <3166452687168...@naggum.no>, Erik Naggum <e...@naggum.no> wrote:
> * Russell Wallace <rwall...@esatclear.ie>
> | I'm curious: what do you see as the navigation problem to which HTML
> | missed the solution?

> The ability of one document to introduce a link between two other
> documents, sometimes known as a "meta-link". Where implemented,
> they are easily used to track how you arrived at a given document,
> and thus you can browse your "journey" through a number of
> documents. This particular "application" can be implemented by many
> other means, but the general facility that would make it simple and
> easy is missing from HTML.

Can you give an example? I presume that a browser history is an example
of "this particular application" being "implemented by ... other means"
but I don't see how having bidirectional links in HTML would add any
functionality.

Erann Gat
g...@jpl.nasa.gov

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