[8392] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: KidCode: Next steps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren New)
Tue Jun 20 06:11:04 1995
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 10:27:20 +0100
From: Darren New <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
To: Terje Norderhaug <Norderhaug.CHI@xerox.com>
Cc: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@nsb.fv.com>, Wes Morgan <morgan@engr.uky.edu>,
rating@junction.net, www-talk@www10.w3.org
In-Reply-To: <ac0ae80202021004632a@[130.191.9.103]>
> Even better would be to be able to block just specific parts of documents.
> What I have in mind goes beyond the blocking of adult information -
> it should be possible to get tailored presentations where unwanted information
> is stripped, thus better serve the neds of the reader.
Well, since a "document" is the smallest thing to transfer, you never
really want "part of a document". What you seem to want is to get
different documents depending on your preferences. Of course,
advertisers *want* you to see their stuff, so they're unlikely to label
it as "advertisement" or the home VCR manufacturers would already have
invented a reliable commercial-zapper.
If you're talking about KidCode and the ability to see different
documents based on your age, it's not inconceivable that a URL of the
form http://.../blah/KidCode.any/blah.html could be made with the
understanding that a KidCode browser would fill in the age for "any" and
get different documents as appropriate. This still wouldn't require any
changes to servers (if you were willing to make a bunch of symlinks), but
I think *this* is getting too complicated to implement quickly.
---Darren
