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From XPUB & Lens-Based wiki

The Web As Collage

  • Collage of protocols
  • Collage of machines
  • Collage of participation / interests

TO DO: Situate the below messages in the early development of the web. Identify the key players (Berners-Lee, Andreesen), where they are and what their various interests are in the web.

Linking & Embedding

If you follow the archived discussion thread of the proposed image tag, you see things proposed such as an special "include" attribute on the anchor tag to mean to embed, or place that which is referenced in-line in the flow of the referring page. This behavior was not followed however as the anchor tag (<a>) has remained purely a mechanism to introduce click-able links (ie references that the user must click -- or explicitly request following in some fashion), in order to open.

It is interesting to parallel the discussion around tags to those around HTML 5's addition of <audio> and <video> tags. (need references)