Subject: Re: PaceReplaceLinkElement: Is link-ness relevant?

From: Dare Obasanjo <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 07:59:31 -0700 (PDT)

--- Eric Scheid <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On 17/7/04 12:31 PM, "Dare Obasanjo"
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > (iii) this is a link to an image file which is the
> > logo for the producer of this feed (iv)here is an
> > image file that is an icon that can be used to
> > represent this feed in applications that display
> feeds
> > in a tree view
> 
> both of these also fit your (i) link to human
> readable document ... those
> image files can be loaded into a browser for viewing
> purposes. No different
> to loading the image file "picture of my cat".
> 
> if you want to do something extra with it (eg.
> display the logo in a banner
> space, display the icon in a tree view), then that
> is, um, extra.

That is not how they are primarily meant to be used.
If an aggregator presented me a link to the logo and
icon for a site as opposed to using them in a sensible
way like what Bloglines does I'd assume the aggregator
designer was extremely lazy or drunk when he wrote the
code for that "feature". 

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