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Re: Accesskeys (again??) (was RE: Physically Challenged Web Page Access)

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: May 5, 2005 8:18AM

On 5/5/05, Austin, Darrel < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>>>> > > <link rel="home" href="index.php" title="Home" />
>>>> > > <link rel="bookmark" title="Page Content" href="#content" />
>>>> > > <link rel="bookmark" title="Site Navigation"
>>
>>> > href="#navcontainer"
>>
>>>> > > />
>
>>
>> Can you explain this a bit more? What is the advantage of using the LINK tag
>> vs. creating an actual set of href tags at the top of your HTML?


Link tags are supposed to define the document relationship, not
replace hyperlinks. If you see a webpage as a page of a book, the LINK
tags would be the staples, whereas A elements are references in the
text.

The practical upshot is that some browsers prefetch pages linked via LINK.

http://www.wats.ca/articles/accesskeyalternatives/52


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