Re: URL attributes

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> 
> As you say URL's can point to anything. Why then explicitly type them by
> calling them VideoURL etc? The only reason I can think of is to give the
> user some idea of what's behind the URL, but these attribute names only 
> indicate the type, not a content of any sort. And the type maybe 
> negotiable through HTTP or whatever anyway.

Yes this is exactly the reason why we have done this:
	give a hint to the user of what is to be expected

> 
> Would it not be more flexible and descriptive to have a one-liner of 
> HTML in there? E.g.
> 
> Name: URL
> Value: <A HREF="http://whereever/earth.html">A Picture of Earth</A>
> 
> Or even simply 
> 
> Value: <url><space><description>
> 
> where the description is optional.

This seems a nice idea indeed
we will experiment that tomorrow.

As I said nothing is fixed we are just experimenting and able and willing
to change even radically if that seems the appropriate decision.


> 
> > http://perignon.inria.fr:2200/htbin/x500person/C=fr;O=inria;OU=dmi?pays
> 
> Nice :-)
> 
> -- Martijn



Thanks


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