- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 11:25:30 PST
- To: David - Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
- Cc: http working group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
HTML and WWW norms tend to excessive fragmentation of information and too many hlinks to investigate just to guess which to follow. There are many times when a complex subject (like the HTML specs) needs to be studied in a more linear sequence than can be achieved yet with current markup the author is discouraged from providing a well organized linear document. Agreed. This is a somewhat different problem than the one which started this thread, but I would really like to see a browser that supported a "flatten" command (maybe "flatten 1 level", "flatten N levels", and "flatten entirely" commands). I don't know if this would require any additional HTML support. I'm more interested in HTTP, and I think this would not require anything new from HTTP (although it might be nice to have an efficient way of asking for the entire set of documents in one request). -Jeff
Received on Wednesday, 22 March 1995 11:43:57 UTC