- From: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>
- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 12:28:15 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On 26 Dec 1997, Peter Flynn wrote: > What we need are a few additions to section 9.2.1, like > > <MORE> Indicates means for getting further information on the topic > discussed. > > This is crazy. What's wrong with <A title="More info" href="foo.html">...</a> Nothing wrong, assuming that the strings "More info" and "foo.html" are replaced by something which is really helpful in a particular context. (Triviality? Perhaps. But there is an astonishing number of Web pages with titles like "HTML document for the World Wide Web", and they aren't even docs about HTML. :-) But it simply defines a link, as opposite to marking a part of document as providing information which does not belong to the main flow of content in the document (such as suggestions for additional reading in a textbook-like document). Such a part may contain additional information embedded or provide information about such information, e.g. as hypertext links or as bibliographic references. > <COMMENT> Indicates text which comments on adjacent paragraphs. > > Obviously the CSS2 authors would love a <COMMENT> element, what with their > [Brian: Do we need this?] [Paul: Yes I think we do] and stuff... :-) > > This is equally crazy. Go and look at the commentary apparatus in the > Synex browser (eg Panorama or MultiDoc Pro: confusingly they call > their nests of comments "webs", but that's just an abberration). I wonder how this related to the HTML language. HTML is a simple hypertext markup language for the WWW. The question whether it is _too_ simple in some respects sounds legitimate to me and is not really answered by referring to apparatuses outside HTML and WWW, except possibly as suggesting, by analogues, that there _is_ some need to extend HTML. > I somehow doubt HTML itself is going to be extended much more. This discussion list is rather futile if we think so. I am often inclined to think that way, but during those periods I don't usually write to forums discussing HTML. Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/
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