HTML3 DTD

• From: Michael Johnson <michaelj@relay.relay.com>
• Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 12:39:49 EST
• To: www-html@www0.cern.ch (HTML discussion list)
• Message-Id: <MICHAELJ.941130123949@relay.relay.com>

In reading through the HTML3 DTD, I note that some of the elements that were
in HTML+ have been omitted from the draft HTML3 specification. The ones
that are missing are:

    ABSTRACT
    ADDED
    ARG
    BYLINE
    CHANGED
    CMD
    FOOTNOTE
    IMAGE
    L
    LIT
    MARGIN
    ONLINE
    PRINTED
    QUOTE
    REMOVED
    RENDER

Some of these (IMAGE, L, LIT) can be considered redundant, and some may be
of dubious utility (such as RENDER, QUOTE) but others I think are quite useful
and do not add unacceptably to the complexity of HTML. The ones that I most
want to see resurrected in HTML3 are:

    ABSTRACT
    ADDED
    ARG
    BYLINE
    CHANGED
    CMD
    FOOTNOTE
    REMOVED

If I had to choose one of these to make the cut, it would be FOOTNOTE, with
CHANGED a close second. MARGIN is redundant if FOOTNOTE is retained.

ONLINE and PRINTED might be nice, but their absence would not break my heart.

Michael Johnson
Relay Technology, Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 30 November 1994 18:49:12 UTC