- From: Nick Arnett/Multimedia Computing Corp. <nicka@mccmedia.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 09:59:39 -0800
- To: connolly@hal.com, Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
At 5:57 PM 6/2/94 +0200, Daniel W. Connolly wrote: >>> No, and I'm not trying to. New elements can and will be added over time. >> >>How??? It is not good enough to say that they will be added -- there needs >>to be a specific mechanism defined whereby they can be added without breaking >>existing implementations. We can't define a new content-type every time >>we need a new element. > >As precedents, look at IMG, HR, BR. Those aren't relevant examples, really. The problem is that someone might want to start indexing or linking fizzbins that appear in documents. If grasden, flitzbot and yabsnutz are each kinds of fizzbins, there needs to be a mechanism to tag them as such, even though HTML knows nothing of fizzbins. Unless you want to end up with tags for every possible type of thing that might be indexed or linked, you need something along the lines of META. This is not in defense of a particular scheme, but for an architecture that will allow semantic tagging. Nick Multimedia Computing Corp. (strategic consulting) Campbell, California ---------------------------------------------------------- "We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunity." -- Pogo
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