- From: Philippe-Andre Prindeville <philipp@res.enst.fr>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 19:56:24 +0100
- To: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
On Nov 30, 18:51, Michael Johnson wrote: > 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: Why are render and quote of dubious utility? There are many high-level constructs we needed (for an on-line dictionary/thesaurus) that exceed plain-vanilla HTML. By using RENDER, we can invent tags that are appropriate to our data and render it appropriately, without losing any semantic information, which wouldn't be the case if we simply put in "raw" formatting commands like the very dubious (IMHO) <B> and <I> directives. But even this solution is not optimal. Someone else doing another on-line dictionary might not tag his the same as our, which means that on can't search (as opposed to simply browsing) the data in the same way, with the same tools. Quote is also important, for composing bibliographical data, for correctly attributing citations, etc. -Philip
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