- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:38:00 -0800
- To: cwilso@microsoft.com
- Cc: gtn@ebt.com, www-style@w3.org
> Doing this by tag explosion would be fine, *IF* I could easily > extend the DTD the user agent is using (e.g., if we were all using > SGML browsers instead of HTML-only browsers). However, before you > take this as a vote for SGML browsers over HTML browsers, I do feel > that the focus on HTML has allowed us (the Web community) to establish > a ubiquitous baseline functionality that would be difficult if > everyone's approach had been SGML==>some dynamic DTD==>Stylesheet > hooks==>presentation from the beginning. Wrapping a > more-or-less-stable DTD and the stylistic properties applied to > elements in that DTD into one (easier-to-implement) package has > allowed HTML the glory of driving Internet publishing to incredible > heights. Great. So now that we've established a ubiquitous baseline functionality, can we turn our attention to developing approaches that will scale into the future? If not now, when? Jon --- Jon Bosak, SunSoft 2550 Garcia Avenue, Mountain View, CA
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