The Subversive Hyperlink - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Subvert the status quo. Own a website. Make and share links.
A history of hypertext, from the memex to HyperCard.
Subvert the status quo. Own a website. Make and share links.
How do we write, design, and code a link that works for everyone on every device? Let’s dive into the world of creating the perfect link, without making a pig’s breakfast of it.
It gives me warm fuzzies to see an indie web building block like rel="me" getting coverage like this.
“Be linkable and accessible to any client” is a provocative test for whether something is “of the web”.
We invite software developers to do their part, by
- ensuring their users can conveniently obtain a link to the currently open or selected resource via a user interface; and
- providing an application programming interface (API) to obtain or construct a link to that resource (i.e., to get its address and name).
I put this moment over here.
A collection of hyperlinks to collections of hyperlinks.
Show me my associative trails.
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