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

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From: Bryce Fields
Date: May 5, 2005 2:07PM

On 5/5/05, John Foliot - WATS.ca < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> Austin, Darrel 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?
>>> >
>
>>
>> Darrel,
>>
>> *Advantage*? Right now, there is minimal advantage to using this, although
>> I believe in doing things "right". If/when user agents support relative
>> links properly it will be a real boon. Think beyond Internet Explorer and
>> Firefox to PDAs and other handhelds, embedded apps, etc. Providing meta
>> data such as this in theory can be exploited by these tools to the end user
>> advantage.




Just a personal note. Well spoken. :-)

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