A wishlist for HTML/Netscape/WWW

• There should be two ways to select a link, one of which causes you to go there, and the other to 'inspect' the nature of the link-- where it leads, how much data it will transfer (w/ or w/o gifs), etc.
• Navigation commands need to be standardized and built into HTML, so that we don't have to put our own 'up' 'next' 'home' buttons on every page. (This will require supplying a map of the topology, which the browser can translate into buttons.)
• A 'virtual' anchor like "bigtext.html#%27" that would allow you to link to a particular position (here, 27% down from the top) in someone else's document, without them having to insert a real anchor
• A sort of 'temporary bookmark' that you can create with a single keystroke/mouseclick, for those occasions when you have to choose between following an interesting link and continuing to read an interesting page. It would make sure you get back to the branch-not-chosen, eventually...

I'm looking for where issues like these are discussed. This document from the WWW Consortium in Switzerland is the best I've found so far. But it's written in jargon, and very vague.

Here's another one that goes into a few more particulars

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