Talk:Link awareness
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Is 'link awareness' a generally recognised term, or something you guys are attempting to define? Please see the Wikipedia contribution and naming convention rules.
The term does show up on the W3C mailing list now and then, and it seems like folks know what they mean by it, so it seems reasonable to cover it. But I agree that this article doesn't really give an adequate definition. Also, the term is also used in wireless networking to mean something entirely different. -- Lee Daniel Crocker
The term 'link-aware' is commonly used in articles describing software and tools designed to deliver global link information. It is used primarily as an adjective. See for example, the following Google cache:
The term 'link awareness' is an attempt to derive a noun from this adjective: the state of being link aware.
B.t.w. On the removing of adverts: please let me know what you consider an "advert" and what not. I believed the outside content that I was linking to was relevant to the topic. Personally, I consider all links to be advertisements (a link advertises a relationship with something else). But if by "advert" you mean any thing that links to the author's outside content, then I would like to make the case that such a practice is not necessarily bad: so long as the content linked to is adequately related.
There is no specific policy on advertising here, other than the fact that we want articles to useful and unbiased. If describing or linking to a commercial product does that, it's fine. But if an article has no purpose other than being an advertisement, it will likely be delted. This article could stnad much improvement, but I don't think it's deletable on those grounds. -- ~~
I agree that it could stand much improvement.
I'll try to do it when the server is less busy. Maybe it's me, but I'm finding the site painfully slow (e.g. this page took 159 seconds to load). -b.
