Re: <PAGE> proposal

At 11:03 am 12/23/95 -0500, William C. Cheng wrote:
>Eric S. Raymond <esr@locke.ccil.org> wrote:

>| This objection, and all others like it, fails to address one of my central
>| points.  Please try to stop thinking of <PAGE> as document-controlled
>| pagination (though I certainly want to use it that way) and start thinking
>| of it as an attempt to decouple display behavior from underlying file 
>| representation.

>But it seems to me that having separate scrollable sections _couples_
>display behavior with file representation.  <PAGE> doesn't seem to have
>any meaning to anything but displays (or printing, which is another kind
>of display).

   Perhaps in the sense that it adds a functionality that addresses 
an issue for a medium that is otherwise not supported. But in the 
strict sense, it is decoupling the HTML file representation from the 
display behavior of "browser-with-screen", which should not be the 
only medium supported. 

   Someone in here earlier said that they see a "page" as being like 
a "screenful" (not a direct quote)--and that's the mentality that Eric's 
proposal seeks to address. 

   A "page" as a type of object that current HTML ignores. I agree with 
Eric that we need to correct that. 


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