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Comment by lukasb

4 years ago

The thing html missed out on (which was part of the original vision, to be fair) was using the same program for editing and viewing.

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gardenfelder  4 years ago

And bi-directional links by way of Ted Nelson

  • somat  4 years ago

    Bi-directional links are a non-starter from the perspective of having an autonomous distributed system.

    Think about it this way, would you be happy if any random scammer could place links into your web page, well, with bidirectional links, now they can.

    • tomjen3  4 years ago

      Certainly, I wouldn't want spammers to be able to insert links into my text. However, if there was an option in my browser to see who had linked to the content, sorted by some reasonable measure, such as page-rank, don't you think that would be a good thing for the web?

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