Re: HTML is declarative on purpose [was: Web neurons ]

 From: john@eco.powernet.co.uk (John Middlemas)
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| Scott writes:-
| 
| > The problem is that in some cases (a growing number) the "content" of
| > the page is generated by the code.  If you don't execute the code, you
| > don't have any words to index.  This is a significant obstacle to
| > providing effective indexing and access to the information on the Web.
| 
| Yes, I suppose I should have realised this. 
| 
| So to maintain good indexing you shouldn't generate "content" from
| code. One has to ask why this is done anyway. Perhaps the very reason 
| is because HTML has not itself got the proper tools in place.
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By the way, I didn't mean to criticize your idea - I was just answering
a question.  I think the web neuron idea is interesting.  I would
suggest building something, as a proof of concept.  I don't think you'll
get a lot of support for standardizing the idea until you can
demonstrate that it's an effective tool (that is, Turing completeness
alone is not enough - nobody writes programs for Turing machines).

scott

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Received on Thursday, 30 May 1996 09:07:45 UTC