Re: Generic Markup [was:Re: deprecated tags in Wilbur & Cougar]
Marc Salomon (marc@ckm.ucsf.edu)
Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:59:03 -0700
From: "Marc Salomon" <marc@ckm.ucsf.edu>
Message-Id: <9608121059.ZM8795@gaia.ckm.ucsf.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:59:03 -0700
In-Reply-To: bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com (Jon Bosak)
To: bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com (Jon Bosak), gtn@ebt.com
Subject: Re: Generic Markup [was:Re: deprecated tags in Wilbur & Cougar]
Cc: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, kmc@harlequin.com,
bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com (Jon Bosak) wrote:
|But not in an environment where hyperlinking is part of the picture.
|Without a way to map agreed-upon hypertext behaviors to specific
|pieces of language, the Web won't work.
Exactly.
I was thinking this weekend that it's pretty easy to agree what a paragaph or a
section should be, and how to behave at certain levels of structural nesting.
But how do you communicate programattically what how <A HREF=".."> is
implemented? Or <FORM> elements? Or functionality that we haven't even
thought up yet?
-marc
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