Re: HTML should not be a file format, but an output format

Terje Norderhaug wrote:
> The web server companion Interaction/IP on the Mac is well prepared for all
> that you describe, as I share your vision about document management.
> Interaction is technically a light-weight SGML document publishing system
> particularly suited for dynamic adaptive sites, and the only web server
> companion on the Mac to have a long time clearly stated commitment to SGML.

That is nice to hear. I will have to take back what I was thinking about
Macintosh programmers and the Macintosh culture. =)
 
> Interaction includes an almost complete Common LISP interpreter, and I
> welcome anybody that want to play with such LISP syntax stylesheet mappings
> (or implementing other capabilities) to join in and see what you can make
> as an extension for Interaction on the Mac:

That is nice to hear. I would encourage you to look at Jade as it would
be nice to have products that do roughly the same things converge on a
syntax. James Clark's goal for Jade is that as HTML evolves, and CSS
support becomes widespread, HTML would be just another DSSSL target,
like RTF.

 Paul Prescod

Received on Sunday, 23 March 1997 12:43:09 UTC