Re: [Gzz] Re: Is xupdf reasonable?!

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:01:55AM +0200, Matti Katila wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> > Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> >> Now, allowing the user to write, *if she wants*, text on the link or so,
> >> would be good.
> > Writing on a link is something I'd like,
> 
> Yeah, Tuomas has a good point. Well there still exist a problem and 
> that's it when you write 'this'-> "refers to"-> 'that' since from other 
> side it looks the same if no direction are given.

You are already giving the solution here.

Let the user draw an arrow or whatever on the link itself!

> > but I think it *may* be orthogonal to link types... not sure.
> 
> Umh, I don't think it's the same thing. If there are link types they are 
> selected beforehand. Not a good thing at all. If you are willing to write 
> the type you have all your freedomnes to select the most obvious words. 
> Do we give too much freedom to user? I think not.

Yes, the question as I see it really is

        Do we *need* machine-understandable link types?

My opinion is "not". Semantic web -peoples' opinion is yes.

        Tuomas