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You don't get hyperlinks in a document-centric approach...

You think of them as action, they're not.

Actions are for applications. You are reading a document.

They are metadata.

Think of them like "footnootes" of a paragraph, or references.

Remember, you're reading a document, not using an application.



Documents don't contain calls to action like "Download X" or "Tell me more about Y", so your argument falls down in relation to the examples presented by W3C.


I don't read documents online. I use applications.


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