A long time ago, in an economy far
away, there was a dream. That dream was that HTML would be used to convey the
semantics of information. Aside from research papers, there really hasn't been much fruitful uses for semantic markup and little support
in the brand name browsers.
Mozilla has changed this with the
inclusion of support for the LINK
tag. Check out this site with a nightly from this week or the upcoming 9.5
release, and you'll find next and previous links in the toolbar while browsing
search results.
For this site, the link tag offers
a common way of representing navigational choices in the toolbar. This is
particularly ideal for search engines, given the match of first, next, and
previous. Other key uses for the web at large are site specific home page links
(reclaim the upper lefthand space of your homepage!), and the presentation of
meta information like author. Other attributes include section and subsection and are largely oriented torward
book / research paper style information organization. Still, it's a very good
thing and should eventually help search engines understand your content.
10/4/2001
10:52:44 PM
Mozilla has a nifty shorthand for executing queries from the location bar. You can install the ones I use by bookmarking from this page. Get the one for this site right here, shortcut srf.
9/30/2001
11:20:13 PM
Nooface is a new /site oriented torward next generation interfaces. There's a pointer to a very interesting bookmark processor NetReality (linux only).
I've updated my skanty blog list below to be more up to date with my surfing habits. Another new one is the EPSS Infosite, kinda of like a usable-web on steroids. They spotted some great work at First Monday on an experimental evaluation of a history augmentation using the notion of trails.
It took about a week, but my Mozilla gesture toolbar is in Google now. It's much further developed than when I pointed to it 4 days ago, go get mozilla and check it out. My linklist is particularly important now as mozgest allows me to right-click and drag over the links I want to open.