- From: len bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 23:22:07 -0600
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Tim Bray wrote: > > Plan C: XML, +H > > The really good thing about HTML is neither its syntax nor its baroque > ad-hoc display semantics; rather, the value is in the incredibly useful, > proven-in-action hypertext, multimedia, and interaction semantics of <A>, > <IMG>, <FORM> and <TABLE>. For display, I think most XML-capable > information providers would rather use a stylesheet anyhow. > > Thus plan C. Instead of a full-feature Web browser, have a miniature XML > browser that has *no display semantics* other than those from a > stylesheet... however, it does recognize (either by hardwired GI or > architecture-like attribute) a small number of semantically loaded useful > elements from HTML. This could be either a standalone thing, or something > embedded in your local Netsplorer, that makes use of the browser's hypertext > semantics and stylesheeting. > > Plan C looks good to me. Except for forms, that's IADS. It will work very nicely and is easy to use. Plan C is easy. Make an interactive stylesheet editor for it and keep the styles fairly simple to build with. Take a look at the IADS stylesheet editor if you want some ideas. It helps if it can suck in a DTD and populate the tag tree. That way, existing DTDs can be converted quickly and you get mindshare quick from a ready audience. len
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