Re: [Tads3] Eric Eve's Getting Started guide

["Andreas Sewe" <andreas.sewe@xxxxxx>]

"Mike Roberts" <mjr_@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> <link> would be a useful addition to the HTML version anyway, whether IE
>> implements it or not. And maybe it does in some better future yet to
>> come.

> It would be easy enough to generate the relative <link> elements.  The
> drawback I see is that there'd be redundant UI for "next" and "back" and
> so on in browsers that show a UI for these - we'd have the ones the
> browser shows automatically for <link>, plus the ones that'll be in the
> page itself.

That's IMHO only a minor annoyance - but probably the reason <link> is not
that widely used or implemented.

>   But maybe that's a minor annoyance that would be an acceptable trade-off
> for the extra structured metadata?

I do think so, especially since it allows a browser or plugin to prefetch
pages or create a table of contents on the fly. No browser that I know of
does this right now, but <link>'s usefulness is not limited to yet another
toolbar with "Previous" and "Next" buttons.

Any other opinions?

Andreas Sewe