From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jun 25 03:29:01 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02510; Sun, 25 Jun 95 03:29:01 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA24980; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 14:55:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 20:52:29 +0200 From: lichtin@olsen.ch Message-Id: <9506221852.AA24082@schilling.olsen.ch> To: Wei Li Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: un-sub References: <199506221850.NAA18816@tam2000.tamu.edu> Content-Length: 99 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/889 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Wei Li writes: > UN-SUB www-html Please hold off sending garbage messages to this group, please! From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jun 25 07:19:30 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06072; Sun, 25 Jun 95 07:19:30 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA09639; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 07:47:32 -0400 Subject: Re: ALT specification References: <9506200637.AA22548@www10.w3.org> Message-Id: From: michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson) To: Philippe.Jausions@chasseneuil.em.slb.com (Philippe Jausions) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org (HTML discussion list) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 95 07:38:32 EDT Content-Length: 738 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/856 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >I have a suggestion for ALT attribut (IMG tag). Why don't we use it with full >HTML syntax and not just with simple text. This is already in HTML 3.0 in the form of the FIG tag which is similar to the IMG tag but allows full HTML content, which is used when the graphic cannot be, for example: My House!
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In addition, the anchor in the example could use the SHAPE attribute to define a shaped anchor for when the graphic can be used. The shape would in this case be a rectangle corresponding to the door in the graphic image. It works quite nicely. Michael Johnson Relay Technology, Inc. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jun 25 10:44:41 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10510; Sun, 25 Jun 95 10:44:41 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA04279; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 11:40:20 -0400 From: Steve Message-Id: <199506191537.AA16052@mordred.gatech.edu > Subject: Quark XPress -> HTML, anyone? To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 11:37:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 930 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/840 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Hello all, has anyone here tried the commercial Quark to HTML converter? I've checked out MIT's Perl script, but it's not as robust as I would like. For those interested, you can find information on it at What I am looking for, however, is some sort of black box, or rather, a "magic goes here" extension to Quark, such that I can create a Quark document, do a "File | Export to HTML" and have a nice, neat, HTML page. From what the Quark people at Comdex told me, a converter avilable from a third-party company would do this. Has anybody used this converter, and if so, how well does it work? Thanks in advance, steve ___________________________________________________________________________ Can't think of anything right now, other than the traditional e-mail address: steve@mordred.gatech.edu Steve's Page From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jun 25 11:51:32 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11894; Sun, 25 Jun 95 11:51:32 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA03622; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 11:29:16 -0400 From: "Daniel S. Barclay" Reply-To: daniel@compass-da.com Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 10:36:43 -0400 Message-Id: <199506191436.KAA15832@arcturus.columbia.compass-da.com> To: habib@world.std.com Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: (message from Steve H Rose on Thu, 1 Jun 1995 21:12:16 +0500) Subject: Re: Registered Content-Length: 846 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/859 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > From: Steve H Rose > > The codes that I use are the ASCII codes. I find they work consistently, > while some of the other special codes like © do not seem to in all > browsers. The ASCII code for R in a circle is ® the ASCII code > for TM is ™ the ASCII code for C in a circle (copyright) is > © -- any other ASCII code can be entered in a similar manner. You cannot be right with those codes. ASCII does not have such characters. Daniel -- Daniel S. Barclay Compass Design Automation, Inc. daniel@compass-da.com Suite 101, 5457 Twin Knolls Rd. Columbia, MD 21045 USA "They listen hard, and act like they care. How can they be so completely unaware Of the truth? The answer is always denied me So I introduce 'em to the killer inside me." - MC 900 Ft. Jesus From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jun 25 14:58:45 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15657; Sun, 25 Jun 95 14:58:45 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA03252; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 17:55:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 17:51:01 -0400 From: "Alex J. Bernardin" Message-Id: <199506252151.RAA17494@hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Content-Length: 518 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/926 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Can anyone point me to good information regarding this markup? In all of the documentation I've seen, a very vague explanation is given regarding 'making the page searchable'. I've seen no other mention of this searchability elsewhere. Breif mention is made of ISINDEX in documentation on Forms, but again, nothing to elucidate its practical usage. I would actually love it if it can be used to facilitate searches as I need to implement a keyword searching function at my site. -thanx in advance... --AlexJB From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jun 25 18:37:51 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20642; Sun, 25 Jun 95 18:37:51 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AB11718; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:15:16 -0400 Message-Id: <9506231513.AA06961@waterloo.gig.nl> X-Sender: kitblake@waterloo.gig.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 17:13:34 +0100 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: kitblake@gig.nl (kitblake) Subject: Re: Multi column layout question. Content-Length: 698 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/905 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >Chris Lilley said: >I assume people on this list, which is a technical discussion forum, have at >least skimmed the archives and familiarised themselves with existing HTML >features and proposals before proposing new HTML features. Could you then >explain how your proposed overloaded use of columns is an improvement on >these HTML 3.0 proposals? I have "skimmed" them, but don't recall a column feature. >Of course, if you happen to like multi-column text for wide screens then >fair enough. Use a stylesheet which triggers multiple column layout for

>whien the browser window is wider than some value you specify. If this is possible then it's the end of the thread. kit blake From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jun 25 19:52:24 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22345; Sun, 25 Jun 95 19:52:24 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA00729; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 22:49:46 -0400 From: Paul Prescod Message-Id: <199506260249.WAA04708@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: Server-side data conversion and Internet bandwidth (was: Re: Multi column layout question.) To: philipp@res.enst.fr (Philippe-Andre Prindeville) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 22:49:06 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <9506250229.ZM13773@jones.res.enst.fr> from "Philippe-Andre Prindeville" at Jun 25, 95 02:29:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 247 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/928 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > Should HTML 3.0 architects be concerned about the > economics of the Internet? And what will happen if they > aren't? HTTP supports data type negotiation. That would be the logical place to address format vs. bandwidth issues. Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jun 25 20:09:24 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22677; Sun, 25 Jun 95 20:09:24 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA00298; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 23:06:21 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 23:01:19 -0400 From: "Alex J. Bernardin" Message-Id: <199506260301.XAA20285@hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: Still not working (Let's take a poll...) In-Reply-To: <199506252223.RAA07757@mail.milwaukee.tec.wi.us> References: <199506252223.RAA07757@mail.milwaukee.tec.wi.us> Content-Length: 704 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/929 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Pete Fanning writes: > > -- wrapper was made by root, and I used the POSIX settings UID:1 > > GID:202 (the majordomo group) CHOWN:root and CHMOD:4755 > > The only thing I did different from you in the above is that I > created BOTH a user and group called majordom and assigned the UID > and GID appropriately. You appear to be specifying user daemon as > the UID. I have no idea if this even matters, I'm just pointing out > what I did differently. Other than that....the CHOWN and CHMOD are > correct for wrapper. -- Point taken. I actually do have a user majordomo, and all of the files are in that account's home dir. Setting UID to majordom doesn't change the error, though... From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jun 25 21:51:44 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24878; Sun, 25 Jun 95 21:51:44 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA03861; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 20:06:50 -0400 From: "Lou Montulli" Message-Id: <9506191606.ZM6119@strumpet.mcom.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 16:06:23 -0700 In-Reply-To: Matthew J Gering "Embedded multipart/x-mixed-replace;" (Jun 19, 2:28pm) References: X-Face: 2%:,dh#NyL=h+${dpRhMgWq_:WU|hRg,gd:q08ah!sc~a^V?8x}:6YSw>)K1n"&>ebiBHx1H5#zr*6qoFw%K,:yyH,'D7^54~HcZ4%CEdVGu#GE3T5WMztPF1GIhXU\-vT2{u61n8cJzcY7SxCzRl'O-`f"93K.yFdPJXrG#|7R X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.0 26oct94 MediaMail) To: Matthew J Gering , www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: Embedded multipart/x-mixed-replace; Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 1194 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/842 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On Jun 19, 2:28pm, Matthew J Gering wrote: > Subject: Embedded multipart/x-mixed-replace; > > How do I make a dynamic area within a static document? > > I've tried using multipart/mixed, but Netscape doesn't recognize that > MIME type. > > What I want is a Server Push within a static document. I know how to do > this with , but I want to do this with text/html. If I reload > the whole page with multipart/x-mixed-replace as the primary document type > it causes the whole screen to flash because Netscape clears the screen > and reloads every push (which is every couple milliseconds, so it is > quite annoying). > > Multipart/mixed seems the most logical method, with the x-mixed-replace > document placed in between text/html, but as I said, Netscape > (Mozilla/1.1N) doesn't recognize that type. > Unfortunatly it can't be done with server push. Small image animations work because images can be inlined. There is currently no client mechanism to inline HTML. Hopefully in the future there will be a standard for inlining HTML and other arbitrary data types. :lou -- Lou Montulli http://www.mcom.com/people/montulli/ Netscape Communications Corp. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jun 25 22:25:59 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25682; Sun, 25 Jun 95 22:25:59 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02347; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 01:22:52 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Jun 95 14:07:24 PDT From: Ron Marriage Subject: Re: Multi column layout question. To: www-html@www10.w3.org, Walter Ian Kaye X-Mailer: Chameleon - TCP/IP for Windows by NetManage, Inc. Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-Length: 1832 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/930 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Ah, you knew it was coming didn't you? >>This problem is particularly acute with the partially sighted, who may be >>reading text set to like an inch or so high. The images do not scale with >>the text so they cannot see them. > >They should get a multiscan monitor (maybe a doctor's note can get them a >hardware discount? ) and set their resolutions to 50dpi or less. Hello Walter, As a blind author of html, I thought I would let you know. The blind nor visual handicapped get discounts for large monitors. We not only pay the same price, but in some cases get charged more simply because someone convinced someone somewhere that a larger screen was a plus. Most blind use a screen reader to read their html pages. I use Netscape as my browser and my screen reader will tell me background colors, font styles and sizes, etc. It will not read columns though. It starts at the top and goes down one line at a time. Text within graphics such as menumaps are read to me. Any text in two columns is scrambled so badly I can't make sense of it. Items that scroll off the edge of my screen are simply gone. I use lynx, mosaic, and netscape to check the appearance of a document. I feel the entire issue of multi-column or wide screens in a document open to the public is best left to style sheets and other non-html solutions. Within a closed system then design for the common equipment that everyone will have, Pages for public use should be designed with the public in mind. (Stepping off SoapBox and leaving my two cents) Ron ------------------------------------- Ron Marriage rmarriag@dialin.ind.net ronmarriag@aol.com Personnal Page http://dialin.ind.net/~rmarriag/ City of Madison, Indiana http://dialin.ind.net/~madison/ ------------------------------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jun 25 23:59:37 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27725; Sun, 25 Jun 95 23:59:37 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA01636; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 02:52:45 -0400 Message-Id: X-Sender: cm1906@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 07:52:01 +0100 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: jw@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk (Jon Wallis) Subject: Re: Server-side data conversion and Internet bandwidth (was: Re: Multi column layout question.) Content-Length: 2657 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/931 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >At 02:29a 06/25/95, Philippe-Andre Prindeville wrote: > >>Just here: image scaling (ie. fitting an image into a >>640x400 rectangle), depth reduction (taking a 24bit GIF file >>and rendering it in 1bit deep B&W on a notebook), etc. should >>be done *SERVER-SIDE*. > > >What we really need are guidelines, and for HTML authors to follow them. >For example, I propose the following for _inline_ images: > > * 8-bit (256 color) images (can link to 24-bit if desired) > * 72-dpi resolution (can link to high-res if desired) > * Reasonable image sizes, like max 470 pixels wide for > title graphics and navbars (again, can link if desired) > This also ensures that images will fit without scrolling > within default window sizes of Mosaic and Netscape browsers > on typical 13-15" monitors (it defaults to same width on my > 17" monitor, as a matter of fact) [snip] This all seems to be getting out-of-hand - HTML is now getting so complex (by comparison with HTML "1" anyway) that it is no longer fulfilling its original purpose (or at least it's harder to see the wood for the trees). I agree with the responsible use of images (and strongly promote it in my teaching), but having to take account of everyone's hardware when you write HTML is simply ludicrous - one reason HTML was A Good Thing was precisely that it was h/w *independent*. I think most of the action *should* be server-side (i.e., only send what the browser wants or can handle), but this requires a start-up dialog between browser and server to establish what the browser *can* handle (not too difficult to establish). Also there seems to be too much emphasis on "in-line" capabilities - the fact that you can spawn "helper-apps" was/is a real strength of Web browsers - extensibility and preservation of original media types being just two benefits A while back there was some interest in MHEG - a far more complex protocol than HTTP, but it does address this sort of problem - i.e., client-server negotiation over how to supply and present components of multimedia. AFAIK it's on the verge of becomming a standard (it was a "Draft", last I heard) and deserves some attention. I haven't heard MHEG mentioned in connection with the Web for quite some time. Just some semi-incoherent thoughts (it's 7.45 am (BST) monday morning and therefore too early for heavy thinking.) -- Jon Wallis Senior Lecturer in Information Systems Engineering School of Computing & I.T., University of Wolverhampton, UK - WV1 1SB Tel/Fax +44 (0)1902 322203/322680 http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1906 ------------Opinions are mine, not those of my employer-------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 02:22:00 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00885; Mon, 26 Jun 95 02:22:00 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02607; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 11:17:46 -0400 Message-Id: <199506201515.LAA29244@beach.w3.org> To: ftf@gol.com (Hunter Brumfield) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: HTML complete syntax list In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 1995 17:40:21 +0900." Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 11:15:56 -0400 From: "Daniel W. Connolly" Content-Length: 936 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/857 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list In message , Hunter Brumfield writes: >Hello everybody, >I would like to get hold of a complete updated syntax list of HTML 3.0. >I got a book on HTML, but it only list the basic tags/syntax. >I'd like to use HTML to its full capability. Would anyone know a site for this >? The "home" of HTML is, was, and will continue to be as far into the future as I can see: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html The editor of the HTML 3.0 specification is Dave Raggett. He's here at W3C for a while, so the HTML 3 info on that page should be up to date (if not, it will be soon, so that's the place to watch.) So that's: HyperText Markup Language (HTML): Working and Background Materials http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html#development It has pointers to the latest published draft, plus pointers to various development areas like tables, internationalization, etc. Dan From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 09:34:36 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14250; Mon, 26 Jun 95 09:34:36 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA20520; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 12:26:55 -0400 Message-Id: <9506261316.AA07191@waterloo.gig.nl> X-Sender: kitblake@waterloo.gig.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 15:16:53 +0100 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: kitblake@gig.nl (kitblake) Subject: Re: Multi column layout question. Content-Length: 99 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/938 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >kitblake/lilley said: > >> This discussion began with the observation that many companies, with fast >> links and nice monitors, are making very wide pages. Check out >> http://www.alias.com/. It's at least 700 pixels. > >Heh. Never even occured to me that page was a problem. Then again on my >1280x1024 screen my browser comes up 780 wide by 892 high. > >You see that as a problem because your lower resolution screen uses less >pixels to make the same point size of text. Wrong assumption: I work on an Indy - 1280x1024. And I still find 800 pixel line lengths hard to read. Two columns would help, and if the user only has 640, it would only be one column. >Of course, I see the converse problem with image horizontal rules that are 500 >or whatever pixels across, and tiny (from my perspective) inline images. > >The problem is not with the text, which is nice and independent of platform >and >browser. It is the images. All existing browsers that I know of use a 1:1 >mapping between image pixels and device pixels. So the image looks small on a >high resolution screen and large on a low resolution screen. > >This problem is particularly acute with the partially sighted, who may be >reading text set to like an inch or so high. The images do not scale with >the text so they cannot see them. > >This problem is being adressed in the following areas: > >- HTML 3.0 FIG which take width and height in real world units >- stylesheets, which can magnify everything with a lens mapping >Of course, if you happen to like multi-column text for wide screens then >fair enough. Use a stylesheet which triggers multiple column layout for

>whien the browser window is wider than some value you specify. If this is an option then I have yet to hear of it. Thanks for pointing its existence. >> Having some control mechanism to organize text in columns makes for better >> communication. A caption can be under a picture. Or on a side. > >Ah. See the FIG element too for that. A caption is best in a element. The element sounds hard to control. >>Or linked footnotes can be on a wide margin. > >Or you could use the foonote feature in HTML 3.0. Pop-up footnotes are one solution, but rather clicky. >I assume people on this list, which is a technical discussion forum, have at >least skimmed the archives and familiarised themselves with existing HTML >features and proposals before proposing new HTML features. Could you then >explain how your proposed overloaded use of columns is an improvement on >these HTML 3.0 proposals? I am not testing or writing Arena/HTML3, but a column element seems simple to implement, and would provide many options in formatting a page. Options that I don't see available in: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html kitblake From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 09:40:34 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14495; Mon, 26 Jun 95 09:40:34 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA20745; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 12:35:27 -0400 Message-Id: <199506261634.MAA22557@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU> X-Sender: rsb5c@faraday.clas.virginia.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 12:29:51 -0400 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: Richard Bondi Subject: What is LINK? Content-Length: 349 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/939 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Can someone explain to me what embedding LINK in an does? Or tell me a good place to look? Thanks, RB ------------- Richard Bondi Darden School Network and Website Administrator (http://www.darden.virginia.edu) Darden Business School Library University of Virginia Massie Road Extended Box 6500 Charlottesville, VA 22906 Fax: 804-924-3533 From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 10:00:26 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15543; Mon, 26 Jun 95 10:00:26 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA22197; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 12:55:11 -0400 X-Sender: young@aleta.cs.purdue.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:58:23 -0500 To: kitblake@gig.nl (kitblake), www-html@www10.w3.org From: young@cs.purdue.edu (Michal Young) Subject: RE: Multiple columns/ all this talk about pixels Content-Length: 892 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/941 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >>1280x1024 screen my browser comes up 780 wide by 892 high. >Wrong assumption: I work on an Indy - 1280x1024. And I still find 800 pixel >line lengths hard to read. This whole conversation seems to be predicated on "pixel" as a unit of measure. Although it is true that current browsers interpret images as have a width and height measured in pixels, measuring anything in pixels should be considered a temporary hack to be repaired as soon as possible. Others have already pointed out that FIG will use real-world units. I don't think it would break any rules if browsers also interpreted current html images, rules, etc. as being measured in printers points (which just happen to by 72 per inch, a nice match to a typical 72dpi screen resolution) rather than pixels. If a user wants a different scaling, a "lens" mapping (applied to both text and images) is appropriate. --Michal From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 11:09:09 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19254; Mon, 26 Jun 95 11:09:09 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA25736; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 14:04:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 95 20:03:53 +0200 From: Philippe-Andre Prindeville Message-Id: <9506262003.ZM3335@jones.res.enst.fr> In-Reply-To: jw@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk (Jon Wallis) "Re: Server-side data conversion and Internet bandwidth (was: Re: Multi column layout question.)" (Jun 26, 7:52) References: X-Address: E.N.S.T. - Dept. Res. / 46, rue Barrault / 75634 Paris Cedex 13 Tel +33(1) 45.81.73.14 Fax +33(1) 44.16.70.20 X-Face: >4WM/$ED&E'4zy#c4]"b5^50kZ9W\o}W+e>qU0!;~b|q/.dFb}M4JKOu_gIL[`Zb!=\(t<$ ZoARNta[Qx:";t-A0-l$=tBB=bPzZpsUnUQ*8ZPHUV archive/latest/944 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On Jun 26, 7:52, Jon Wallis wrote: > This all seems to be getting out-of-hand - HTML is now getting so complex > (by comparison with HTML "1" anyway) that it is no longer fulfilling its > original purpose (or at least it's harder to see the wood for the trees). > > I agree with the responsible use of images (and strongly promote it in my > teaching), > but having to take account of everyone's hardware when you write HTML is > simply ludicrous - one reason HTML was A Good Thing was precisely that it > was h/w *independent*. I'm not saying the HTML should take this into account... But rather that the server can and should be able to perform the necessary conversion of data (especially downscaling sound or image data) when the transfer takes place... For instance, when transferring an image, the HTML stays the same, but the JPEG or GIF or AU data might be down-scaled. -Philip From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 11:32:47 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20341; Mon, 26 Jun 95 11:32:47 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA27209; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 14:28:01 -0400 Subject: Re: What is LINK? To: Richard Bondi Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 14:22:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Murray Maloney Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <199506261634.MAA22557@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU> from "Richard Bondi" at Jun 26, 95 12:29:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1257 Message-Id: <9506261422.aa17889@dali.scocan.sco.COM> X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/945 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Richard Bondi writes: > > Can someone explain to me what embedding LINK in an does? Or tell > me a good place to look? > You don't embed LINK in an . There is a element which takes all of the same attributes (including href) as the element. The element is only supported by a couple of browsers, so there is no good reason to use right now, unless you are writing context-sensitive help for an SCO system. I am currently working on a discussion paper, that will eventually be submitted as an Internet Draft, on the subject of hypertext links in HTML, use of the element, REL and REV attribute values and meanings, and suggestions for additional attributes and elements. This paper is currently being reviewed by various members of the HTML Working Group. I will be publishing it to this mail list for broader review real soon now. Regards, Murray =========================================================================== Murray C. Maloney Internet: murray@sco.com Sponsor member of Davenport Group Member of IETF HTML Working Group =========================================================================== Disclaimer: I'm speaking for myself. 'T ain't nobody else to blame but me. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 12:58:34 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24483; Mon, 26 Jun 95 12:58:34 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA00358; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 15:52:01 -0400 From: "Jason B. Thatcher" Message-Id: <199506261951.AA04787@mailer.fsu.edu> Subject: columns dialogue To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 15:51:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 855 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/946 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I agree with the message on leaving the column issue browser specific. If this is such a hot issue... simply throw it into two very large table columns and let the words wrap. They should fit pages across systems... granted I lack unix experience on this one... When designing pages, my major problem is getting all of the neat fixes in clients demand a.k.a. Netscape browsers... and still ensuring other people can read the document through mosaic or other neat "new" browsers. Philosophically, I think the fixes are already present in html for most of the column issues. You just need to think creatively!!! Don't mean to sound snotty, but sometimes the best trick is leaving the markup alone... and ensuring you effectively communicate information across mediums. Jason Thatcher jthatche@mailer.fsu.edu "I don't need no stinking Netscape!" From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 15:19:18 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00967; Mon, 26 Jun 95 15:19:18 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA08001; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 18:14:19 -0400 X-Sender: tnorderh@mail.sdsu.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 15:13:01 -0800 To: jw@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk (Jon Wallis), www-html@www10.w3.org From: Norderhaug.CHI@xerox.com (Terje Norderhaug) Subject: Re: Server-side data conversion and Internet bandwidth (was: Re: Multi column layout question.) Content-Length: 1502 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/947 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 10:52 PM 6/25/95, Jon Wallis wrote: >>At 02:29a 06/25/95, Philippe-Andre Prindeville wrote: >> >>>Just here: image scaling (ie. fitting an image into a >>>640x400 rectangle), depth reduction (taking a 24bit GIF file >>>and rendering it in 1bit deep B&W on a notebook), etc. should >>>be done *SERVER-SIDE*. >I think most of the action *should* be server-side (i.e., only send what the >browser wants or can handle), but this requires a start-up dialog between >browser and server to establish what the browser *can* handle (not too >difficult to establish). It is already partly in place, as the browser will send what formats it support. >Also there seems to be too much emphasis on >"in-line" capabilities - the fact that you can spawn "helper-apps" was/is a >real strength of Web browsers - extensibility and preservation of original >media types being just two benefits In-line capabilities is very important, and should be even more emphasized. However, whether to display the inlined information in the document, display it in in a spearate window, or leave it as a link should be the decision of the browser/user, and not the author. A helper app could be able to display a media type within any document displayed by a browser, and is supported by the UI object mechanisms (OpenDoc, OLE, etc). Helper apps is more in accordance with modern software paradigms than having one fat browser that can do it all. -- Terje From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 16:48:47 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04768; Mon, 26 Jun 95 16:48:47 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA03301; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 19:46:11 -0400 From: Paul Prescod Message-Id: <199506262242.SAA17293@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: Multi column layout question. To: kitblake@gig.nl (kitblake) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 18:42:35 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <9506261316.AA07191@waterloo.gig.nl> from "kitblake" at Jun 26, 95 03:16:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 793 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/949 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > I am not testing or writing Arena/HTML3, but a column element seems simple > to implement, and would provide many options in formatting a page. There is your mistake. HTML is explicitly not about formatting pages. It is about describing the structure of a document to a computer. Other formats (perhaps used in conjunction with HTML) must describe its formatting. This is the point behind style sheets. They are external documents that describe the desired format of a document. > Options > that I don't see available in: > http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html Hopefully you will never see formatting options in HTML. HTML 3.0 provides a mechanism for specifying external style sheets. That is where you should put your columns. Not in HTML. Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 17:23:45 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06060; Mon, 26 Jun 95 17:23:45 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA00364; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 20:19:02 -0400 Message-Id: Date: 26 Jun 1995 17:07:19 U From: "Core Systems" Subject: Re: Server-side data convers To: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP/QM 3.0.0 Content-Length: 2463 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/958 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Mail*Link(r) SMTP RE>Server-side data conversion and Internet bandwidth... On Jun 26, 7:52, Jon Wallis wrote: > This all seems to be getting out-of-hand - HTML is now getting so complex > (by comparison with HTML "1" anyway) that it is no longer fulfilling its > original purpose (or at least it's harder to see the wood for the trees). > > I agree with the responsible use of images (and strongly promote it in my > teaching), > but having to take account of everyone's hardware when you write HTML is > simply ludicrous - one reason HTML was A Good Thing was precisely that it > was h/w *independent*. I'm not saying the HTML should take this into account... But rather that the server can and should be able to perform the necessary conversion of data (especially downscaling sound or image data) when the transfer takes place... For instance, when transferring an image, the HTML stays the same, but the JPEG or GIF or AU data might be down-scaled. -Philip ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by amgen.com with SMTP;26 Jun 1995 11:28:36 U Received: from amgen.com by dune.amgen.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA07837; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:17:28 -0700 Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by amgen.com (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA14177; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:17:20 -0700 Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AB25725; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 14:04:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 95 20:03:53 +0200 From: Philippe-Andre Prindeville Message-Id: <9506262003.ZM3335@jones.res.enst.fr> In-Reply-To: jw@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk (Jon Wallis) "Re: Server-side data conversion and Internet bandwidth (was: Re: Multi column layout question.)" (Jun 26, 7:52) References: X-Address: E.N.S.T. - Dept. Res. / 46, rue Barrault / 75634 Paris Cedex 13 Tel +33(1) 45.81.73.14 Fax +33(1) 44.16.70.20 X-Face: >4WM/$ED&E'4zy#c4]"b5^50kZ9W\o}W+e>qU0!;~b|q/.dFb}M4JKOu_gIL[`Zb!=\(t<$ ZoARNta[Qx:";t-A0-l$=tBB=bPzZpsUnUQ*8ZPHUV archive/latest/944 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 19:15:07 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09665; Mon, 26 Jun 95 19:15:07 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02871; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 22:12:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 22:06:34 -0400 From: "Alex J. Bernardin" Message-Id: <199506270206.WAA17104@hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: Still not working (OOPS !) In-Reply-To: <199506260301.XAA20285@hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu> References: <199506252223.RAA07757@mail.milwaukee.tec.wi.us> <199506260301.XAA20285@hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu> Content-Length: 84 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/961 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Sorry everyone, I sent my mail to the wrong list.... --Alex-looking-sheepish-JB From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 20:11:39 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11410; Mon, 26 Jun 95 20:11:39 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA14561; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 09:10:52 -0400 Message-Id: <9506261311.AA33729@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU> X-Sender: chackett@gsaix2.cc.gasou.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 09:12:17 -0400 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: chackett@gasou.edu (Chris Hackett) Subject: Users Pages Content-Length: 851 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/932 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Good Day all, Please forgive me if this is an improper mailing list for this. I have a question about University pages, or pages with many many users. I have see pages where a large university has hundreds of home pages for their students. Is there a script of some sort that searches a machine or searches all the /~username directories for a home.html file or something and then creates a html file with all the links in it? We are going to use NFS to mount space on a seperate machine for users home pages. I have noticed that if there is no home.htm(l) then the browser will default to listing the files in the directory. Is there a setting in one of the configuration files for the server to avoid this? Thans for any help. -- Chris Hackett (chackett@gasou.edu) WWW Developer Georgia Southern University 912-681-5215 From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 20:30:34 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11940; Mon, 26 Jun 95 20:30:34 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA08456; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 23:27:54 -0400 From: Wei Li Message-Id: <199506270326.WAA26133@tam2000.tamu.edu> Subject: un-sub To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 22:26:38 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 27 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/962 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list un-sub www-html wei li From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 21:33:53 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13349; Mon, 26 Jun 95 21:33:53 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA11316; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 00:30:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 95 21:28:30 PDT From: Barb Green Message-Id: <9506270428.AA24224@mailhost.ElSegundoCA.ATTGIS.COM> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: un-sub Content-Length: 25 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/963 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list un-sub www-html NORM! From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jun 26 23:47:58 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16273; Mon, 26 Jun 95 23:47:58 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA17585; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 02:41:20 -0400 Message-Id: <9506270641.AA01333@isis.sp.isl.secom.co.jp> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 15:45:46 +0900 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp (Keith Rogers) X-Sender: kerog@192.168.232.16 Subject: Footnotes in HTML3: questions/proposals Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp X-Mailer: Eudora-JE(1.3.8-JE13) Content-Length: 1352 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/964 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I was just looking at the section on footnotes in the HTML3 spec. Is the idea here that footnotes will be activated in much the same way as balloon help on the Macintosh? It would seem to me that there should be a separate window pane at the bottom of the screen for footnotes, more like the way Word Perfect does help. Passing the mouse over the footnote would cause it to be displayed at the bottom of the screen without distracting the reader by popping up a new window or modifying the information being read in any way. It also occurs to me that a common use for footnotes of this sort might be to expand acronyms or provide definitions of technical terms. In such a usage pattern a term might appear a number of times in a document. As it would be laborious to mark the footnote at each reference to the term, perhaps a definition at top or bottom of the document would be in order. Then each instance of the defined term would automatically be footnoted during display. What do people think? -Keith ------- Keith Rogers kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp SECOM Intelligent Sytems Laboratory, Speech Processing Group GEd--Hs+:g+p?++!aua-w+v+C++(++++)U+P+L3-N++E--- K+++W---M++V-- -po+Yt++@!5jxRG++('''')tv--b+++ DB---e+++>++++u+(*)h-f+r++n---y+ For an explanation of the above, see http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ratinox/geek-code-2.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 01:17:27 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18354; Tue, 27 Jun 95 01:17:27 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA22661; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 04:11:11 -0400 Message-Id: <9506270811.AA03401@isis.sp.isl.secom.co.jp> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 17:15:52 +0900 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp (Keith Rogers) X-Sender: kerog@192.168.232.16 Subject: RE: Footnotes in HTML3: questions/proposals Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp X-Mailer: Eudora-JE(1.3.8-JE13) Content-Length: 1913 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/966 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 1:45 AM 6/27/95 -0500, Geoff Baysinger wrote: >Sounds like another subject where it will be up to the browser to >interpret the HTML how it wants ... I realize that this is up to browser-designers. I was trying to get a feel for the intent with which the html was proposed. :-) What sort of uses are people envisioning for this? Will there be footnote symbols that can be specified by the user, or will that also be browser-dependent? Also, what about the concept of having a definition at top or bottom for a word which should be repeatedly footnoted? How about having a reference to a subject specific glossary at a separate URL? For instance, if I'm writing an article on a subject in an obscure branch of chemistry, I might want to link my document into a standard glossary of terms used in that branch. Then terms appearing in the glossary would automatically be footnoted in the document, making the information more accessible and creating a basis for a shared, consistent terminology. Geoff also wrote in reply to this message: >I didn't post the "browser/server" reply since there's enough of that >running around, but you should put up the idea of cross-referrenced >footnotes since it does seem rather unique and useful ... it could be >used for maintaing a "table of contents" also, so you could just update >your table of contents HTML file with the links in it, and the links in >your footnotes would be automatically updated ... MUCH simpler than >updating duplicate links across dozens or hundreds of documents (my most >dreaded activity). ------- Keith Rogers kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp SECOM Intelligent Sytems Laboratory, Speech Processing Group GEd--Hs+:g+p?++!aua-w+v+C++(++++)U+P+L3-N++E--- K+++W---M++V-- -po+Yt++@!5jxRG++('''')tv--b+++ DB---e+++>++++u+(*)h-f+r++n---y+ For an explanation of the above, see http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ratinox/geek-code-2.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 02:23:12 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19882; Tue, 27 Jun 95 02:23:12 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA25585; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 05:16:19 -0400 X-Sender: tnorderh@mail.sdsu.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 02:13:31 -0800 To: kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp (Keith Rogers), www-html@www10.w3.org From: Norderhaug.CHI@xerox.com (Terje Norderhaug) Subject: Re: Footnotes in HTML3: questions/proposals Content-Length: 440 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/967 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 10:45 PM 6/26/95, Keith Rogers wrote: >I was just looking at the section on footnotes in the HTML3 >spec. Is the idea here that footnotes will be activated in >much the same way as balloon help on the Macintosh? The spec does of course not define how footnotes will be rendered. The exact appearance is up to the browser to decide, or potentially the user. -- Terje From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 05:06:08 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23780; Tue, 27 Jun 95 05:06:08 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA01500; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 19:06:29 -0400 X-Sender: tnorderh@mail.sdsu.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 15:36:58 -0800 To: kitblake@gig.nl (kitblake), www-html@www10.w3.org From: Norderhaug.CHI@xerox.com (Terje Norderhaug) Subject: Re: Multi column layout question. Content-Length: 1503 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/948 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 6:16 AM 6/26/95, kitblake wrote: >Wrong assumption: I work on an Indy - 1280x1024. And I still find 800 pixel >line lengths hard to read. Two columns would help, and if the user only has >640, it would only be one column. [...] >>I assume people on this list, which is a technical discussion forum, have at >>least skimmed the archives and familiarised themselves with existing HTML >>features and proposals before proposing new HTML features. Could you then >>explain how your proposed overloaded use of columns is an improvement on >>these HTML 3.0 proposals? > >I am not testing or writing Arena/HTML3, but a column element seems simple >to implement, and would provide many options in formatting a page. Options >that I don't see available in: >http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html A new column element is of course not required at all. Somebody just need to make a browser (if it is not already done) that formats a document using more than one column. Just as a browser might format any document using an initial larger character for each paragraph, if the _reader_ find that more appealing, or center any header even without a center attribute, or whatever formatting the reader might find most appealing. May be those that propose new HTML features should have familiarized themselves with not only existing standards but also with the philosophy behind HTML before proposing new features. -- Terje From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 07:30:32 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28502; Tue, 27 Jun 95 07:30:32 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA10646; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 10:21:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 07:19:39 -0700 Message-Id: <9506271419.AA20609@deltanet.com> X-Sender: rcolman@mail.deltanet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: rcolman@deltanet.com Subject: User Authentication Content-Length: 205 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/968 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I am seeking a methodolgy of 'user authentication' (passwording) a portion of a Web site. Can anyone supply some information on the easiest way to do this, or point my nose in the right direction? Thanks. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 08:54:52 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01913; Tue, 27 Jun 95 08:54:52 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA16114; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 11:51:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 11:49:39 EDT From: asunkara@cne.gmu.edu (Anil Kumar Sunkara) Message-Id: <9506271549.AA27856@cne.gmu.edu> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Pay scale Content-Length: 273 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/969 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Dear friends, I am working on web utilities,mostly on html right from 20 months. I want to seek a job in internet area.Could any one know what is the pay given to an engineer with 20 months experience. Thanking you for your consideration -Anilkumar Sunkara From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 11:12:16 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08897; Tue, 27 Jun 95 11:12:16 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA05400; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 13:59:02 -0400 X-Sender: murray@filbx2.nttc.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Eudora-Demo: NOT FOR RESALE - 90 DAY DEMONSTRATION COPY Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 13:56:26 -0400 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: murray.altheim@nttc.edu (Murray Altheim) Subject: Proposed HTML 2.0 Entities - Rendering Errors Content-Length: 1486 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/970 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I took the character entity list from the Connolly/Berners-Lee June 16th 2.0 DTD and tested the entity list in Netscape and Mosaic on the Macintosh. On displaying a number of character entities using 12 point Times in Mosaic or Netscape on a Macintosh, a number of these entities do not display correctly. This is sometimes due to a character mapping error within the browser, other times due to the character being unavailable within the particular font or within the Macintosh character set. This was not meant to be a browser test. Following is a document demonstrating the errors found: http://ogopogo.nttc.edu/tools/html/propEntErr.html I'm interested in a dialog on solutions to rendering these characters correctly on platforms that do not have the correct mappings, either due to OS, font, or browser problems. Few people in the US need to use the Icelandic "Eth", but quite a few of these entities would be very valuable additions to our global repertoire if we could find a way to display them. Murray (the other Murray) ----- English Dance Hall song: "His mother was an earwig; his father was a whale. "A little bit of head and hardly any tail. And Ogopogo was his name." __________________________________________________________________ Murray M. Altheim, Information Systems Analyst National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling, West Virginia email: murray.altheim@nttc.edu www: http://ogopogo.nttc.edu/people/maltheim/maltheim.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 11:17:27 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09278; Tue, 27 Jun 95 11:17:27 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA06348; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 14:04:14 -0400 Message-Id: <199506271713.BAA26432@f18.hkstar.com> X-Sender: dom@hkstar.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 01:15:11 -0400 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: dom@hkstar.com (Dominie Liang) Subject: HTML Writer in IRIX Content-Length: 420 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/971 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Any good sugguestion of HTML Writer is good and can run in IRIX of Silion Graphic? The Webmagic 1.0 is not support HTML 3.0 at the present. I need some HTML tools other than using a plain editor to edit my HTML document... Best Rgds, Dominie Liang Webmaster Hong Kong Star Internet Limited -------------------------------------- - dom@hkstar.com - webmaster@hkstar.com -------------------------------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 11:33:15 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10202; Tue, 27 Jun 95 11:33:15 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA24659; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 13:47:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 13:45:15 -0400 From: www-html-d-request@www10.w3.org Message-Id: <9506261745.AA24429@www19> Content-Length: 999 Apparently-To: www-html@mail.w3.org To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: none X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/943 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Ah, you knew it was coming didn't you? >>This problem is particularly acute with the partially sighted, who may be >>reading text set to like an inch or so high. The images do not scale with >>the text so they cannot see them. > >They should get a multiscan monitor (maybe a doctor's note can get them a >hardware discount? ) and set their resolutions to 50dpi or less. Hello Walter, As a blind author of html, I thought I would let you know. The blind nor visual handicapped get discounts for large monitors. We not only pay the same price, but in some cases get charged more simply because someone convinced someone somewhere that a larger screen was a plus. Most blind use a screen reader to read their html pages. I use Netscape as my browser and my screen reader will tell me background colors, font styles and sizes, etc. It will not read columns though. It starts at the top and goes down one line at a time. Text within graphics such as menumaps are read to me. Any text in two columns is scrambled so badly I can't make sense of it. Items that scroll off the edge of my screen are simply gone. I use lynx, mosaic, and netscape to check the appearance of a document. I feel the entire issue of multi-column or wide screens in a document open to the public is best left to style sheets and other non-html solutions. Within a closed system then design for the common equipment that everyone will have, Pages for public use should be designed with the public in mind. (Stepping off SoapBox and leaving my two cents) Ron ------------------------------------- Ron Marriage rmarriag@dialin.ind.net ronmarriag@aol.com Personnal Page http://dialin.ind.net/~rmarriag/ City of Madison, Indiana http://dialin.ind.net/~madison/ ------------------------------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 11:52:20 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11216; Tue, 27 Jun 95 11:52:20 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA08782; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 14:36:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 11:34:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Behlendorf Subject: To: www-html@www10.w3.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1530 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/972 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On Tue, 27 Jun 1995 www-html-request@www10.w3.org wrote: > How about extending the Accept header to pass this information. ... > Accept: image/png; q=0.8; colordepth=8, image/png; q=0.7 > > which would be interpreted as: "if you have an 8 bit colour PNG, send it; > otherwise send me any PNG you have". So by what mechanism should the server determine arbitrary, non-meta-informational attributes of the files it has available to serve, without have to code up a lot of content-type-specific smarts into the server itself? I.e., if a request on the file similar to the unix command "file" returned a attribute/value pair listing, then maybe that would work, but that's not something every content-type has natively. Also, Accept: doesn't have any way to express the statement "send me a PNG of the *lowest* bitdepth you have, please" - we'll need that unless we can assume that a given "level" of a document also implies compatibility with earlier levels. In general, though, I think this kind of fine-tune negotiation should occur as *close* to the client as possible - so that if three people behind the Hensa proxy cache want different bitdepths of the same image, hensa can download the canonical version of the image and downconvert accordingly if it wants, rather than store three different versions. Brian - --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/ ------- End of Forwarded Message From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 13:13:53 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16026; Tue, 27 Jun 95 13:13:53 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA14788; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 16:01:58 -0400 X-Sender: boo@mailhost.primenet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 13:00:46 -0700 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) Subject: Re: Proposed HTML 2.0 Entities - Rendering Errors Content-Length: 2079 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/973 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 01:56p 06/27/95, Murray Altheim wrote: >I took the character entity list from the Connolly/Berners-Lee June 16th >2.0 DTD and tested the entity list in Netscape and Mosaic on the Macintosh. > >On displaying a number of character entities using 12 point Times in Mosaic >or Netscape on a Macintosh, a number of these entities do not display >correctly. > >This is sometimes due to a character mapping error within the browser, >other times due to the character being unavailable within the particular >font >or within the Macintosh character set. This was not meant to be a browser >test. Following is a document demonstrating the errors found: > > http://ogopogo.nttc.edu/tools/html/propEntErr.html > >I'm interested in a dialog on solutions to rendering these characters >correctly on platforms that do not have the correct mappings, either due to >OS, font, or browser problems. Few people in the US need to use the >Icelandic "Eth", but quite a few of these entities would be very valuable >additions to our global repertoire if we could find a way to display them. You might want to check my character set page. I still have to change its title from iso-8859-1 since it's not precisely that, but it's got footnotes as to which of the ISO characters are not in the Macintosh (standard) character set. http://www.primenet.com/~boo/iso-8859-1.html Are there any Adobe font engineers on this list? I'm thinking something similar to SuperATM could be called upon to generate certain "extra" glyphs, or maybe it would require QuickDraw GX, or maybe Copland (with its Unicode support, but that's still a ways off...). Are you looking for a Mac-specific solution, or a cross-platform one? # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Walter Ian Kaye: (602) 942-6390 FoxPro/Excel Programmer; Guitarist # # Correspond to: boo@primenet.com, boodlums@genie.com # # BinHex files: boo@primenet.com WWW: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 15:00:42 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21346; Tue, 27 Jun 95 15:00:42 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA19352; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 17:06:39 -0400 X-Sender: murray@filbx2.nttc.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Eudora-Demo: NOT FOR RESALE - 90 DAY DEMONSTRATION COPY Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 17:05:12 -0400 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: murray.altheim@nttc.edu (Murray Altheim) Subject: Re: Proposed HTML 2.0 Entities - Rendering Errors Cc: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) Content-Length: 3309 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/974 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >>At 01:56p 06/27/95, Murray Altheim wrote: >>I took the character entity list from the Connolly/Berners-Lee June 16th >>2.0 DTD and tested the entity list in Netscape and Mosaic on the Macintosh= . [...] >>I'm interested in a dialog on solutions to rendering these characters >>correctly on platforms that do not have the correct mappings, either due t= o >>OS, font, or browser problems. Few people in the US need to use the >>Icelandic "Eth", but quite a few of these entities would be very valuable >>additions to our global repertoire if we could find a way to display them. > >You might want to check my character set page. I still have to change its >title from iso-8859-1 since it's not precisely that, but it's got footnotes >as to which of the ISO characters are not in the Macintosh (standard) >character set. > > http://www.primenet.com/~boo/iso-8859-1.html > >Are there any Adobe font engineers on this list? I'm thinking something >similar to SuperATM could be called upon to generate certain "extra" >glyphs, or maybe it would require QuickDraw GX, or maybe Copland (with its >Unicode support, but that's still a ways off...). Are you looking for a >Mac-specific solution, or a cross-platform one? Walter, I'm not looking for a Mac-specific solution, although I would certainly point folks to your page as being a better example than mine of those characters not in the Macintosh character set. I would be interested in seeing which are not in the PC charset, as well as feedback from some UNIX folks. But the real point I was trying to make was how to address this issue more globally. Solving it on the Macintosh would be a step pointing the way for others, and maybe this _is_ entirely a browser issue, and beyond the scope of HTML. But most of our workstations (PC, Mac, UNIX, or others) do have limitations in their character sets. As we look at extending the allowable character entities of HTML, a more immediate display solution may be needed, hence my original message and your suggestion. I believe some of the SGML hounds could possibly enlighten us further on a better approach. I certainly didn't grasp all the subtleties of the DTD's character set discussion, nor understand in reading over the 3.0 DTD how HTML will handle this problem in the future. The DTD defines every SGML document as having one "document character set". To be a conforming document, all characters must be within the specified charset. But from a browser standpoint, this statement is rendered somewhat useless in light of each platform's limitations. If none of the current platforms can completely render the entire character set, is there something that can be done within SGML/HTML that could point the way for a less-proprietary solution than would be found by all the various browser vendors? I'd rather avoid having Adobe or Microsoft or Apple "solve" this for us, and have it handled within SGML/HTML. Sorry to have reopened the can of w=FCrms, Murray __________________________________________________________________ Murray M. Altheim, Information Systems Analyst National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling, West Virginia email: murray.altheim@nttc.edu www: http://ogopogo.nttc.edu/people/maltheim/maltheim.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 16:10:13 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24113; Tue, 27 Jun 95 16:10:13 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA24787; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 19:05:46 -0400 X-Sender: tntdunam@pop1.inter.nl.net (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 01:04:30 +0100 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: Info.Dunamis@inter.nl.net (TnT Dunamis) Content-Length: 252 Subject: none X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/975 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list request ============================================================== Theo Theunissen Paul Krugerstraat 80 6543MZ NIJMEGEN the Netherlands tel: 080-784855 email: theunissen@psych.kun.nl ============================================================== From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 17:01:40 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25883; Tue, 27 Jun 95 17:01:40 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA27223; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 19:54:55 -0400 Message-Id: From: cbarnaby@epaus.island.net To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 04:46:33 pst7pdt Subject: un-sub Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.11a) Content-Length: 110 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/976 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list un-sub www-html 5856 Sunset Road Nanaimo, B. C. V9V 1E4 Telephone: (604) 758-2826 Email: Cbarnaby@island.net From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jun 27 17:45:19 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27486; Tue, 27 Jun 95 17:45:19 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA29528; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 20:40:48 -0400 X-Sender: boo@mailhost.primenet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 17:27:29 -0700 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) Subject: Foreign Glyphs (was Re: Proposed HTML 2.0 Entities - Rendering Errors) Content-Length: 2580 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/977 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 05:05p 06/27/95, Murray Altheim wrote: >I'm not looking for a Mac-specific solution, although I would certainly >point folks to your page as being a better example than mine of those >characters not in the Macintosh character set. I would be interested in >seeing which are not in the PC charset, as well as feedback from some UNIX >folks. > >But the real point I was trying to make was how to address this issue more >globally. Solving it on the Macintosh would be a step pointing the way for >others, and maybe this _is_ entirely a browser issue, and beyond the scope >of HTML. But most of our workstations (PC, Mac, UNIX, or others) do have >limitations in their character sets. Well, let's see. HTML/SGML has no concern for a specific platform's native character set, therefore it matters not that a browser use more than one font to render the document character set. With that in mind, we can take common usage of the "Symbol" font as a platform-independent model for generating foreign characters; this means we need only designate one other font (which can ship with the browser) containing the missing characters. The specific single-byte character codes would not be important, as the browser would have a small lookup table to find its code (look up the entity name and return the corresponding character code in the supplementary font). Perhaps even 2 lookup tables, if someone wants to research a few ISO-10646 codes! All the browser really needs is the ability to display more than one font at a time on a single page. Times(R) is the typical default font, so the supplementary font should be drawn with similar metrics. I believe Fontographer 4.1 can generate fonts for Unix and NeXT as well as Mac and Windows. Since there aren't that many missing glyphs, a single 256-character font might be able to include every missing glyph from Mac, Unix, and Windows, although I'm only guessing as I don't know a Unix character set from Adam. ;) If the total is indeed less than 256, then we could even have a sort of "pseudo-standard" for the character codes, but that really isn't an issue since it's a "private" font and those codes are not specified by HTML. Howzzat? -Walter :) # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Walter Ian Kaye: (602) 942-6390 FoxPro/Excel Programmer; Guitarist # # Correspond to: boo@primenet.com, boodlums@genie.com # # BinHex files: boo@primenet.com WWW: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jun 28 03:54:39 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13122; Wed, 28 Jun 95 03:54:39 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA07217; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 06:49:58 -0400 From: S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk Message-Id: <29799.9506281048@strachey.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: Re: accept extension To: brian@organic.com (Brian Behlendorf) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 11:48:30 +0100 (BST) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Behlendorf" at Jun 27, 95 11:34:25 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2422 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/978 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Jun 1995 www-html-request@www10.w3.org wrote: > > How about extending the Accept header to pass this information. > ... > > Accept: image/png; q=0.8; colordepth=8, image/png; q=0.7 > > > > which would be interpreted as: "if you have an 8 bit colour PNG, send it; > > otherwise send me any PNG you have". > > So by what mechanism should the server determine arbitrary, > non-meta-informational attributes of the files it has available to serve, > without have to code up a lot of content-type-specific smarts into the server > itself? I.e., if a request on the file similar to the unix command "file" > returned a attribute/value pair listing, then maybe that would work, but > that's not something every content-type has natively. That's the major stumbling block, I agree. I was merely suggesting a method for incorporating the clients wishes in the HTTP protocol. Maybe one could construct simple scripts for determining such information and have a mapping in the server's configuration between the types and the 'file information' scripts. > > Also, Accept: doesn't have any way to express the statement "send me a > PNG of the *lowest* bitdepth you have, please" - we'll need that unless > we can assume that a given "level" of a document also implies > compatibility with earlier levels. You would need to fix this by specifying different q factors for different bit depths eg. Accept: image/png; q=0.8; colordepth=1 Accept: image/png; q=0.7; colordepth=8 Accept: image/png; q=0.6; colordepth=24 etc. > > In general, though, I think this kind of fine-tune negotiation should > occur as *close* to the client as possible - so that if three people > behind the Hensa proxy cache want different bitdepths of the same image, > hensa can download the canonical version of the image and downconvert > accordingly if it wants, rather than store three different versions. This would mean building in the graphics conversion software to the proxy server. I do not know what the proxy stores, but I presume it needs to remember most (all?) of the headers which the real machine sent. What if the server wishes to send different images depending on the available bitdepth? -- Stewart Brodie Dept. Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University, UK. http://louis.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/ http://delenn.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ <-- running on my Risc PC From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jun 28 05:42:40 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15948; Wed, 28 Jun 95 05:42:40 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA09892; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 08:37:47 -0400 Subject: RE: Footnotes in HTML3: questions/proposals References: <9506280046.AA04672@isis.sp.isl.secom.co.jp> Message-Id: From: michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson) To: www-html@www10.w3.org (HTML discussion list) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 95 07:57:55 EDT Content-Length: 4029 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/979 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Keith Rogers writes: >Any of these solutions seriously limits the use of footnotes >for the HTML author. Maybe the new media of web-based documents should >open up the possibility of much wider footnoting. In paper-based documents, >footnotes are used sparingly so as to avoid cluttering up the pages with >information that not everyone needs or wants. In an electronic document, >no one need read any information they do not want, so footnotes could be >used in a much wider sense to make text more accessible to all readers. >Footnotes could be used to explain acronyms or technical terms, to identify >people mentioned, etc. What you are describing are not footnotes. They are some other kind of document element. It sounds like you are describing variations on a glossary. So what is needed is not to pollute the concept of the footnote, but to include the concept of a searchable glossary. In actual fact, the implementation of footnotes in HTML 3.0 is very flexible. It works like this: - The footnote is defined with an ID attribute that identifies it. The framiture is adjacent to and orthoganal with the burbawitz. - References to a footnote are simply anchors. Attach the framiture as illustrated. There is nothing that would prevent an HTML author from marking all occurances of "framiture" as an anchor that links to an explanatory footnote. However, it sounds like you are trying to avoid excessive markup of a document, which is fine. However, modifying the designed purpose of is probably not the way to do it. There is already a "glossary" link relation: If the glossary can be assumed to be searchable, then it is up to the browser implementor to provide a means of searching a glossary. It could be as simple as providing a button on a toolbar that allows the reader to enter a search term, or it could be as fancy as interpreting a SHIFT+CLICK to mean that the word under the pointer should be submitted for a glossary search. Or both. How the browser presents the results of the glossary search is also not specified. It could treat it as a regular document, or it could recognize that this is a special case and do something else, such as put the results in a pop-up (balloon) window. This is the right way to do the kind of thing you want to do. [omitted] > >Now, having said that, it is quite possible that I am missing something >fundamental and my argument does not hold water. If you think this is >so, please instruct me as to where I have gone wrong. If you think I >have made a legitimate point that others might be interested in, let me >know and I'll post this to the mailing list. I think the fundamental thing that you are missing is that if you see a need for a document element that seems to be missing from HTML you should probably ask yourself how that element should be designed and propose that element, rather than proposing changes to the HTML spec that either pollute the concept of an existing element or that suggest dictating mechanism to browsers. In the case of your example, what you are really looking for is not a document element at all, but a concept of a relationship between documents. As it happens, an element to describe relationships between documents already exists in the form of the element and the specific relationship that you described has already been defined in the HTML spec. There's a convention in technical writing that the defining instance of a term (usually the first instance) is in italics. HTML 3.0 defines a style element. The HTML specification could be augmented to state that words or phrases that appear in a element can reasonably be expected to be found in a glossary search, if a glossary is defined for the document. This would not dictate mechanism to browser implementors, nor would it force authors to limit glossary terms to those that appear in elements. Michael Johnson Relay Technology, Inc. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jun 28 06:38:57 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17812; Wed, 28 Jun 95 06:38:57 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA11146; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:30:42 -0400 From: Paul Prescod Message-Id: <199506281329.JAA02425@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: Footnotes in HTML3: questions/proposals To: michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:29:24 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Johnson" at Jun 28, 95 07:57:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 199 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/980 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Your post on the glossary was well thought out. > If the glossary can be assumed to be searchable... Perhaps this assumption should become a recommendation in the HTML 3.0 standard. Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jun 28 08:15:46 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21289; Wed, 28 Jun 95 08:15:46 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA13937; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 11:06:15 -0400 Message-Id: <9506281457.AA27356@textrine.opentext.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 95 10:54:30 -0700 From: Lynda Heij Organization: OpenText Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: (no subject) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 471 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/981 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Hello, I am trying to find information on user authorization packages avialable for different WWW browsers. My company would like to put a user account administration capability package on our webpages. I was wondering if you know of any package that we can purchase that has the following capabilities: * userid * password * database added on to the server that keeps track of the last tasks done one the server. I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks, Lynda From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jun 28 16:01:55 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13719; Wed, 28 Jun 95 16:01:55 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA25711; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 18:52:01 -0400 From: David Rahbany To: Kim Lo Cc: listserv-WWW3 Subject: Re: Web Files Manager Message-Id: Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 15:56:55 -0600 (MDT) Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Simeon for Windows X-Authentication: none Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Length: 806 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/984 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On 28 Jun 1995 13:46:12 U Kim Lo wrote: >Anyone knows of a converter from Word native format to html? So far, all I've >seen is filter from rtf to html. > Check out Microsoft's Internet Assistant for Word. It's available at their Web sight (http://www.microsoft.com). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dave Rahbany Client Services Specialist Celestial Seasonings, Inc. e-Mail: drahbany@ctea.com Voice: 303-581-1304 Fax: 303-581-1349 -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAy/p/NkAAAEEAOmJHaqhfSKQVnEeE1L4YYSq9xK33WoY2wHDxsxx3aZhzTk4 GzhnccrKgL2y78g0kjF/vZtNiDncYlIjtfIX8duw5ioTp6nLA/EJkjxzcQQjBTTr YyNpiKBSTWURqET3s5+xOJjW3uccJAEGcJojSiQ8d8X6E7fUw5mzY7U7TOydAAUR tCFEYXZpZCBSYWhiYW55IDxkcmFoYmFueUBjdGVhLmNvbT4= =zcQf -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jun 28 17:47:08 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17770; Wed, 28 Jun 95 17:47:08 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA23076; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 16:55:26 -0400 Message-Id: Date: 28 Jun 1995 13:46:12 U From: "Kim Lo" Subject: Web Files Manager To: "listserv-WWW3" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP/QM 3.0.0 Content-Length: 260 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/983 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Subject Time Date Web Files Manager 1:39 PM 6/28/95 Anyone knows of a converter from Word native format to html? So far, all I've seen is filter from rtf to html. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jun 28 20:15:30 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22448; Wed, 28 Jun 95 20:15:30 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA24653; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 13:47:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 95 19:44:44 +0200 Message-Id: <9506261744.AA29137@slsvett.lts.sel.alcatel.de> From: Thomas Mohr To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: MidasWWW browser Reply-To: Thomas Mohr Content-Length: 576 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/942 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list The MidasWWW browser seems to be able to display Postscript within html. As this is exactly what I am looking for, would any kind soul - give a pointer to a version later than 2.1 - tell who is working on it (mailing lists ?) Thanks in advance, - Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------- | Thomas Mohr SEL/ALCATEL mohr@lts.sel.alcatel.de| | --------- " Alle Dateien nicht loeschen j/n ? " ---------| | -- Opinions are mine, not my employer's ------------------| ------------------------------------------------------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jun 28 21:53:11 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24940; Wed, 28 Jun 95 21:53:11 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA00722; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 00:42:45 -0400 X-Sender: nazgul@mailhost.utopia.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 10:13:27 -0400 To: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) From: nazgul@utopia.com (Kee Hinckley) Subject: Re: Server-side data conversion and Internet bandwidth (was: Re: Multi column layout question.) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Content-Length: 99 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/985 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 7:23 PM 6/24/95, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > * 8-bit (256 color) images (can link to 24-bit if desired) Pratically speaking, you haven't got 8 bits, the display wants some. Iff you make all the images on the page have the same colormap you may be able to get 7 bits, but 6 is more likely. Kee Hinckley Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects=81 617/721-6100 nazgul@utopia.com http://www.utopia.com/ I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jun 29 00:39:13 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28498; Thu, 29 Jun 95 00:39:13 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02886; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 03:30:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 08:25:11 GMT Message-Id: <199506290825.IAA24399@Telecall> X-Sender: mhensby@mail.telecall.co.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: mhensby@news.telecall.co.uk (Mark Hensby) Subject: Collecting Data from Forms Content-Length: 887 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/986 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Can Anyone Help. I need to collect data from simple www forms that can be collected in batch form for data processing in dbase, access, or similar. I have been looking for a simple example and can find nothing that I understand! For example: Let's say I build a form to collect names and addresses. I would like the data to end up in a file, comma or tab delimited (or better still in a dbf file) so that I can import the data for anaylsis. I have been successful in using "mailto:" but the results then need re-keying one at a time in my database which is time consuming. Any help VERY greatfully received Mark Hensby ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Hensby Internet : mhensby@telecall.co.uk Compuserve: 100664,2767 Voice : 01982 553237 ---------------------------------------------------------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jun 29 04:08:45 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04136; Thu, 29 Jun 95 04:08:45 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA21838; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 12:44:41 -0400 X-Sender: boo@mailhost.primenet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 07:48:21 -0700 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) Subject: Re: Server-side data conversion and Internet bandwidth (was: Re: Multi column layout question.) Content-Length: 99 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/940 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 10:13a 06/26/95, Kee Hinckley wrote: >At 7:23 PM 6/24/95, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >> * 8-bit (256 color) images (can link to 24-bit if desired) > >Pratically speaking, you haven't got 8 bits, the display wants some. Iff >you make all the images on the page have the same colormap you may be able >to get 7 bits, but 6 is more likely. Well, yeah, but I was referring to the file format, not the actual count of colors used in any specific image... :) -Walter # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Walter Ian Kaye: (602) 942-6390 FoxPro/Excel Programmer; Guitarist # # Correspond to: boo@primenet.com, boodlums@genie.com # # BinHex files: boo@primenet.com WWW: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jun 29 05:20:48 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05627; Thu, 29 Jun 95 05:20:48 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA07995; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 08:15:11 -0400 Subject: RE: Footnotes in HTML3: questions/proposals References: <9506290943.AA10031@isis.sp.isl.secom.co.jp> Message-Id: From: michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson) To: kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp (Keith Rogers) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org (HTML discussion list) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 95 08:00:20 EDT Content-Length: 2400 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/987 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Keith Rogers writes: >I assume that the glossary link is described in some other >document. Could you tell me where I could find this information? Check out http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people.dsr/html3/CoverPage.html which is a hypertext version of Dave Raggett's HTML 3.0 IETF draft. >So if the glossary can be assumed to be searchable, then there has to be >some sort of standard glossary format, doesn't there? Has this been >specified? Is that what the ".cgi" suffix on your example file indicates? Um, no. Searchable just means that the server is set to up to respond to queries against that document. A query is formed by sending a URL to the server with a '?' and some text appended to it, such as: http://www.somewhere.net/myglossary.cgi?word There are various ways of setting up a document as searchable. The example I gave was supposed to imply a CGI script that would examine the query string, look up a definition for the word or term, and return that definition as an HTML document. Anyway, that's outside the scope of the HTML design issues. >Still, in the event that multiple glossaries are specified >for a document, shouldn't the HTML spec (or *some* spec) >state explicitly which should be searched first? And It would probably be sufficient to say that they should be searched in the order that they are encountered in the document markup. That allows the author to determine the search priority. >should there be some way for an author to specify directly >which glossary he wants to reference for a particular word? Possibly. How would you do that without cluttering up HTML though? >For instance, an author may include several lists of acronyms >in a document. Given the large number of TLA's floating around >in the world, there is considerable overlap. The author thus >may desire that a specific technical glossary be referenced >for a particular word. I don't know how this would best >be implemented in HTML, but it does seem like a valid informational >need. It seems to me that an author should not overload an acronym in a document, e.g. there should not be two possible interpretations of the acronym HTML. If one can expect a term to be used consistently throughout a document, then a little bit of intelligence on the server side ought to be able to resolve that issue without needing additional HTML features. Michael Johnson Relay Technology, Inc. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jun 29 07:47:44 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10950; Thu, 29 Jun 95 07:47:44 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA13531; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:42:08 -0400 X-Sender: murray@filbx2.nttc.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Eudora-Demo: NOT FOR RESALE - 90 DAY DEMONSTRATION COPY Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 17:54:44 -0400 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: murray.altheim@nttc.edu (Murray Altheim) Subject: Re: columns dialogue Cc: "Jason B. Thatcher" Content-Length: 2649 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/988 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >I agree with the message on leaving the column issue browser specific. If >this is such a hot issue... simply throw it into two very large table columns >and let the words wrap. They should fit pages across systems... granted I >lack unix experience on this one... [...] >Philosophically, I think the fixes are already present in html for most of >the column issues. You just need to think creatively!!! > >Don't mean to sound snotty, but sometimes the best trick is leaving the >markup alone... and ensuring you effectively communicate information >across mediums. > >Jason Thatcher IMO, the whole issue of columns is not one of content markup at all. Newspapers use columns to enhance readability, not for style. They receive their content over the AP/UPI/Reuters wire and flow it onto their pages in the best manner possible to get the message across. As content providers we too should be concerned with expressing the content, not the specifics on how it is read. Use of HTML as more than content markup has been hashed to death here and elsewhere. Other formats such as postscript are more suitable for precisely and explicitly defining the appearance of a page. If the issue is truly readability, then use of columns should be a browser-specified option, ie., if your monitor is capable of displaying 240 character lines, your browser might have an option to wrap the text onto three 80 character width columns. Otherwise, columns make no sense whatsoever as markup; window widths may vary from five inches to thirty. Specifying three columns of text on a 20" window may be sensible, but others (including braille readers, as was pointed out by Ron Marriage) would have difficulty reading the text. And to what end? Readability? I was particularly pleased with the June 16th HTML 2.0 DTD. It again resisted the numerous efforts to extend HTML to death. I hope HTML 3.0 doesn't become the undoing of the Web by nature of its added complications. The usability of the Web deteriorates when the content becomes too complicated or based on non-standard markup, and while some seem unconcerned about these issues (especially given the current popularity of Netscape), long term viability of the Web depends on standardization. I apologize to those who feel like I'm beating a dead horse, but this issue just keeps kicking. And I never apologize for a bad pun... Murray _________________________________________ Murray M. Altheim, Information Systems Analyst National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling, West Virginia email: murray.altheim@nttc.edu www: http://ogopogo.nttc.edu/people/maltheim/maltheim.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jun 29 10:01:44 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16725; Thu, 29 Jun 95 10:01:44 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA16847; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 12:49:45 -0400 X-Sender: murray@filbx2.nttc.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Eudora-Demo: NOT FOR RESALE - 90 DAY DEMONSTRATION COPY Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 12:47:51 -0400 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: murray.altheim@nttc.edu (Murray Altheim) Subject: Re: Foreign Glyphs (was Re: Proposed HTML 2.0 Entities - Rendering Errors) Cc: boo@primenet.com, info@netscape.com, mosaic-mac@ncsa.uiuc.edu Content-Length: 2373 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/989 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >>At 05:05p 06/27/95, Murray Altheim wrote: >>[...] >>But the real point I was trying to make was how to address this issue more >>globally. Solving it on the Macintosh would be a step pointing the way for >>others, and maybe this _is_ entirely a browser issue, and beyond the scope >>of HTML. But most of our workstations (PC, Mac, UNIX, or others) do have >>limitations in their character sets. >[...] >Times(R) is the typical default font, so the supplementary font should be >drawn with similar metrics. I believe Fontographer 4.1 can generate fonts >for Unix and NeXT as well as Mac and Windows. Since there aren't that many >missing glyphs, a single 256-character font might be able to include every >missing glyph from Mac, Unix, and Windows, although I'm only guessing as I >don't know a Unix character set from Adam. ;) If the total is indeed less >than 256, then we could even have a sort of "pseudo-standard" for the >character codes, but that really isn't an issue since it's a "private" font >and those codes are not specified by HTML. > >Howzzat? > >-Walter :) Well, it sounds like this _is_ entirely a browser solution. Since the codes for the entity characters already exist, all handling of them would be properly done within the browser, since it's not up to HTML or the document author to worry about the platform of its readers. Hopefully browser developers (NCSA, Netscape and others) have some plans on implementing a solution similar to the one you mention for each of their platform-specific products, so that regardless of the font chosen by the user for display, instances of those characters known to be absent from the platform character set could be inserted as a glyphs from a special font within the browser application. It would be displayed from the browser-borne custom font in the current display size and style. It doesn't even sound too difficult, coming from a TrueType platform where only one custom font would be needed. NCSA/Netscape? Anybody got plans? Murray [discussion from the www-html@mail.w3.org list] __________________________________________________________________ Murray M. Altheim, Information Systems Analyst National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling, West Virginia email: murray.altheim@nttc.edu www: http://ogopogo.nttc.edu/people/maltheim/maltheim.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jun 29 10:28:13 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17982; Thu, 29 Jun 95 10:28:13 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA20265; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 03:32:55 -0400 Message-Id: <9506270730.AA03046@isis.sp.isl.secom.co.jp> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 16:35:12 +0900 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp (Keith Rogers) X-Sender: kerog@192.168.232.16 Subject: RE: Footnotes in HTML3: questions/proposals Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp X-Mailer: Eudora-JE(1.3.8-JE13) Content-Length: 1913 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/965 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 1:45 AM 6/27/95 -0500, Geoff Baysinger wrote: >Sounds like another subject where it will be up to the browser to >interpret the HTML how it wants ... I realize that this is up to browser-designers. I was trying to get a feel for the intent with which the html was proposed. :-) What sort of uses are people envisioning for this? Will there be footnote symbols that can be specified by the user, or will that also be browser-dependent? Also, what about the concept of having a definition at top or bottom for a word which should be repeatedly footnoted? How about having a reference to a subject specific glossary at a separate URL? For instance, if I'm writing an article on a subject in an obscure branch of chemistry, I might want to link my document into a standard glossary of terms used in that branch. Then terms appearing in the glossary would automatically be footnoted in the document, making the information more accessible and creating a basis for a shared, consistent terminology. Geoff also wrote in reply to this message: >I didn't post the "browser/server" reply since there's enough of that >running around, but you should put up the idea of cross-referrenced >footnotes since it does seem rather unique and useful ... it could be >used for maintaing a "table of contents" also, so you could just update >your table of contents HTML file with the links in it, and the links in >your footnotes would be automatically updated ... MUCH simpler than >updating duplicate links across dozens or hundreds of documents (my most >dreaded activity). ------- Keith Rogers kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp SECOM Intelligent Sytems Laboratory, Speech Processing Group GEd--Hs+:g+p?++!aua-w+v+C++(++++)U+P+L3-N++E--- K+++W---M++V-- -po+Yt++@!5jxRG++('''')tv--b+++ DB---e+++>++++u+(*)h-f+r++n---y+ For an explanation of the above, see http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ratinox/geek-code-2.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jun 29 16:50:04 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04971; Thu, 29 Jun 95 16:50:04 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA23607; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 19:36:22 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 23:32:57 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <9506292336.AA23607@www19> From: dba@althingi.is Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 23:32:57 GMT Message-Id: <199506292332.XAA17888@freki.althingi.is> To: www-html@w3.org Subject: censored formfeeds X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1659 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/990 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I recently fetsched: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/html/draft-ietf-html-specv3-00.txt.gz "HyperText Markup Language Specification Version 3.0", Dave Raggett, 28 Mar 1995. Text version (gzip'd) it is good to have all the text in one file and be able to search for terms in the draft it is plaintext in pages with headers and pagenumbers which makes it possible to refer to pages in the document it is fine with me but when it is printed out there is no guaranty that the page header does not end up in the middle of the page there is something wrong here I think strongly that formfeeds in at the least plaintext and pre should not be ignored when it comes to printing I think that casting them out is simply not beeing nice plaintext and pre is not real hypertext so it does not break any philosophy to let formfeed have its usual primitive function there I have found it hard to comprehend the recent discussion about columns HTML is for freefloating text only which does not have the higher structure of pages and columns in my mind pages come first and it is impossible to discuss columns and bypass pages I have been asking for some page control - some way to mark in the document feasible page layout to pass to the printing program which would not be censored on the way it would not have anything to do with the appearance on screen this was asking for too much but now people are asking for column layout on the screen I am puzzled -- Thorvaldur Gunnlaugsson \ The Parliament of Iceland thg@althingi.is \ comp. departm. Vonarstr 8 voice:354-5630655 fax:5630670 \ 150 REYKJAVIK From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jun 29 17:47:37 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06870; Thu, 29 Jun 95 17:47:37 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA25371; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 20:36:02 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 95 12:18:28 EST Resent-Message-Id: <9506300036.AA25371@www19> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 95 12:18:28 EST From: kscholz@mednet.med.miami.edu Message-Id: <9505298044.AA804481993@mednet.med.miami.edu> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: Web Files Manager Content-Length: 723 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/991 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Is anyone aware of a software that monitors the status of a Mac webserver and reports problems to email or beeper? TIA Kilan Scholz kscholz@mednet.med.miami.edu Received: by ccmail from www19 From www-html-request@www10.w3.org X-Envelope-From: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA23158; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 16:57:39 -0400 Message-Id: Date: 28 Jun 1995 13:46:12 U From: "Kim Lo" Subject: Web Files Manager To: "listserv-WWW3" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP/QM 3.0.0 Content-Length: 260 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/983 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html@www10.w3.org Precedence: list From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 03:11:42 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22044; Fri, 30 Jun 95 03:11:42 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA15488; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 06:07:49 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 03:04:19 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9506301007.AA15488@www19> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 03:04:19 -0700 Message-Id: <9506301004.AA12266@deltanet.com> X-Sender: rcolman@mail.deltanet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: rcolman@deltanet.com Subject: META tags in headers Content-Length: 248 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/993 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I have been told that "meta" tags can be used in headers to provide, for wxample, key words for indexing among the various Web database or search engines. Is this true. If so, can someone suggested some references covering this topic? Thank you. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 03:32:59 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22578; Fri, 30 Jun 95 03:32:59 PDT Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 03:32:59 PDT From: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Message-Id: <9506301032.AA22578@eitech.eit.com> Content-Length: 0 Apparently-To: Apparently-To: Apparently-To: Apparently-To: At 9:43 AM 95.6.7 -0400, Michael Johnson wrote: >Keith Rogers writes: >>I assume that the glossary link is described in some other >>document. Could you tell me where I could find this information? > >Check out http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people.dsr/html3/CoverPage.html which is a >hypertext version of Dave Raggett's HTML 3.0 IETF draft. First of all, the correct URL is http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html3/CoverPage.html Second of all, as far as I can tell this document makes no mention of glossaries. It mentiones the REL option of the tag, but says: >Used to describe the relationship of the linked object specified with >the HREF attribute. The set of relationship names is not part of this >specification, although "Path" and "Node" are reserved for future use >with hypertext paths or guided tours. The REL attribute can be used to >support search for links serving particular relationships. This is in the section on hypertext links. Is there some other section which describes glossaries? >Um, no. Searchable just means that the server is set to up to respond to >queries against that document. A query is formed by sending a URL to the >server with a '?' and some text appended to it, such as: > > http://www.somewhere.net/myglossary.cgi?word > >There are various ways of setting up a document as searchable. The example >I gave was supposed to imply a CGI script that would examine the query string, >look up a definition for the word or term, and return that definition as an >HTML document. Anyway, that's outside the scope of the HTML design issues. I hope I understand your example properly. I believe you were suggesting that a script exist on the machine containing the glossary to handle individual requests. This would (a) require that there be a server capable of handling such requests on the computer holding the glossary, somthing that not everyone has access to; (b) require the html author to know the proper script for each individual glossary referenced; and (c) necessitate a new connection for every search. (a) and (b) take a relatively simple concept and make it very obscure for the average user. Given a proper standard, this work could be done by the browser and hidden from the authors of both the glossary and the referencing html author. As far as (c) is concerned, this is appropriate behavior for a *dictionary* but not, I believe, for a glossary. The point of a glossary would be to have a smaller list of vocabulary specific to a given subject. Since it would be small, it could be downloaded in its entirety with the document and then searched at leisure. Requiring a separate query over the internet for each term investigated would be 1) prohibitively slow for many users and 2) unnecessarily burdensome on the glossary provider. A glossary is a very common, accepted form of information. It's not unreasonable to make some sort of provision for it in HTML. If left as a "browser issue" it will never be implemented on a wide basis. >>should there be some way for an author to specify directly >>which glossary he wants to reference for a particular word? > >Possibly. How would you do that without cluttering up HTML though? Hmnn. Maybe it could be done as some sort of footnote. This would take some thought, however. >It seems to me that an author should not overload an acronym in a document, >e.g. there should not be two possible interpretations of the acronym HTML. >If one can expect a term to be used consistently throughout a document, then >a little bit of intelligence on the server side ought to be able to resolve >that issue without needing additional HTML features. No, there should not be two possible interpretations of an acronym within a document. However, when referencing a glossary one might encounter two such intepretations. For instance, I was having a discussion with my girlfriend last night when she used the acronym DTP. I thought "Data Transfer Protocol", but she meant "DeskTop Publishing". She was using it consistently, it was just that in the first (mental) reference list I consulted I came up with an alternate definition. In a document, one might want a glossary for networking and one for publishing. The networking glossary might contain the Data-Transfer Protocol definition while the publishing glossary might contain the DeskTop Publishing definition. Though you might in general prefer to reference the networking one first, in this case you would want to reference the publishing one. -Keith ------- Keith Rogers kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp SECOM Intelligent Sytems Laboratory, Speech Processing Group GEd--Hs+:g+p?++!aua-w+v+C++(++++)U+P+L3-N++E--- K+++W---M++V-- -po+Yt++@!5jxRG++('''')tv--b+++ DB---e+++>++++u+(*)h-f+r++n---y+ For an explanation of the above, see http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ratinox/geek-code-2.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 05:27:25 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25183; Fri, 30 Jun 95 05:27:25 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA26030; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 08:22:53 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 05:20:06 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9506301222.AA26030@www19> X-Sender: boo@mailhost.primenet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Web-Site: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ X-Ftp-Site: ftp://ftp.primenet.com/users/b/boo Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 05:20:06 -0700 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) Subject: Netscape's TITLE/BODY crawl/dissolve hacks done right? Cc: atotic@netscape.com, bobj@netscape.com Content-Length: 1420 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/994 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Since having multiple and <BODY> tags is broken HTML (how's that for an understatement?), here's a suggestion for using attributes instead... TITLE would have the following new attributes: EFFECT ( CRAWL ) DURATION ( number of seconds to complete ) PADDING ( "" [or omit attribute]; " "; or "_" ) ORIGIN ( position from which title appears ) BODY would have the following new attributes: EFFECT ( CUT | DISSOLVE | FADE ) DURATION ( number of seconds to complete ) COLORLIST ( list of RGB values ) The DURATION attribute would only be needed if both title crawl and body dissolve are specified, so as to sync them if desired. ORIGIN would be left or right, maybe center. FADE effect (if implemented) would be from black; DISSOLVE could mathematically create smooth color changes using a short color list. Now someone is probably going to tell me these hacks won't be supported in the future, but they're cool and I'd like to see them grow in an HTML-friendly fashion... -Walter :) # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Walter Ian Kaye: (602) 942-6390 FoxPro/Excel Programmer; Guitarist # # Correspond to: boo@primenet.com, boodlums@genie.com # # BinHex files: boo@primenet.com WWW: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 05:35:59 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25391; Fri, 30 Jun 95 05:35:59 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA26906; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 08:32:19 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9506301232.AA26906@www19> Subject: Re: Glossaries (was: footnotes in HTML3...) References: <9506300056.AA10863@isis.sp.isl.secom.co.jp> Message-Id: <MICHAELJ.950630074820@relay.relay.com> From: michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson) To: kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp (Keith Rogers) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 07:48:20 EDT Resent-From: michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson) Resent-To: www-html@www10.w3.org (HTML discussion list) Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 08:31:00 EDT Content-Length: 5403 X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/995 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >At 9:43 AM 95.6.7 -0400, Michael Johnson wrote: >>Keith Rogers writes: >>>I assume that the glossary link is described in some other >>>document. Could you tell me where I could find this information? >> >>Check out http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people.dsr/html3/CoverPage.html which is a >>hypertext version of Dave Raggett's HTML 3.0 IETF draft. > >First of all, the correct URL is > >http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html3/CoverPage.html Sorry, finger check. >Second of all, as far as I can tell this document makes no mention of >glossaries. [chomp] >This is in the section on hypertext links. Is there some other section >which describes glossaries? Look in the section on the HEAD element. It describes the elements that can be in a HEAD element, including LINK, and gives a list of standard relations. >I hope I understand your example properly. I believe you were suggesting >that a script exist on the machine containing the glossary to handle >individual requests. That's one possible implementation. > This would (a) require that there be a server capable >of handling such requests on the computer holding the glossary, somthing that >not everyone has access to; I don't know of ANY http server implementations that can't run CGI scripts. If the server can serve the original document, it can run a script. > (b) require the html author to know the proper >script for each individual glossary referenced; and (c) necessitate a new >connection for every search. Neither of which is that big a deal. A single well-written script could be used for many documents. Connections are cheap and getting cheaper. >(a) and (b) take a relatively simple concept and make it very obscure for >the average user. Given a proper standard, this work could be done by >the browser and hidden from the authors of both the glossary and the >referencing html author. What can I say? I disagree that there's anything obscure about it. It seems to me that the current situation constitutes a sufficient standard. >As far as (c) is concerned, this is appropriate behavior for a *dictionary* >but not, I believe, for a glossary. The point of a glossary would be to >have a smaller list of vocabulary specific to a given subject. Since it >would be small, it could be downloaded in its entirety with the document >and then searched at leisure. Requiring a separate query over the internet >for each term investigated would be 1) prohibitively slow for many users >and 2) unnecessarily burdensome on the glossary provider. So it's OK to burden the server with lots of dictionary requests, but not lots of glossary requests? How often do YOU actually look at the glossary of a printed document? I doubt there would be an unacceptable load. And, since each glossary entry would presumably be small, there should be little problem with response time. >A glossary is a very common, accepted form of information. It's not >unreasonable to make some sort of provision for it in HTML. If left >as a "browser issue" it will never be implemented on a wide basis. The provision has been made. Any additional restrictions are outside the scope of the HTML standard. Why limit the creativity of information providers? >>>should there be some way for an author to specify directly >>>which glossary he wants to reference for a particular word? > >>It seems to me that an author should not overload an acronym in a document, > >No, there should not be two possible interpretations of an acronym within >a document. However, when referencing a glossary one might encounter two >such intepretations. [example chomped] > Though you might in general prefer to reference the networking >one first, in this case you would want to reference the publishing one. So have the well-written script be able to reference a reasonably simple rule file that would make this differentiation on the server side. Why bother to download all that information to the client? I could picture a script which would be referenced by URLs of the following sort: http://www.somewhere.net/cgi-bin/glossary/~joe/document1?word http://www.somewhere.net/cgi-bin/glossary/~karen/tech-manual?word http://www.somewhere.net/cgi-bin/glossary/~support/installation?word The glossary script would be kept on the server, and would be referenced by all authors who want to provide a glossary. The additional path information after the word "glossary" would be used, by the script, to find the rules file, read it, and figure out how to resolve the glossary term. Presumably this would involve finding an appropriate glossary file and extracting the HTML for the glossary entry. You can specify a standard for the glossary rules and the format of the glossary files without getting HTML itself involved. And you can design it so that it is flexible and easy to understand. You could even design the script so that if it receives a request of the form: http://www.somewhere.net/cgi-bin/glossary/~joe/document1 i.e. with no query appended, that it would go out, read the rules file, construct a complete glossary from the various referenced glossary files, and send this back to the requester. That would allow your "smart" browser to do local searches for words. Flexible, powerful, easy for authors, and no need to mess with HTML. Michael Johnson Relay Technology, Inc. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 05:53:12 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25779; Fri, 30 Jun 95 05:53:12 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA27907; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 08:44:59 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 08:40:47 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9506301244.AA27907@www19> From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-Id: <199506301240.IAA28317@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: censored formfeeds To: dba@althingi.is Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 08:40:47 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@w3.org In-Reply-To: <199506292332.XAA17888@freki.althingi.is> from "dba@althingi.is" at Jun 29, 95 11:32:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 908 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/997 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > I have been asking for some page control - some way to > mark in the document feasible page layout to pass to the printing > program which would not be censored on the way > it would not have anything to do with the appearance on screen > this was asking for too much > but now people are asking for column layout on the screen > I am puzzled Both requests are misguided. Printers and screens are devices. HTML is supposed to be device independent. There should be nothing in an HTML document that is specific to a particular device. It is the responsibility of the displayer or formatter program to make sure that the document looks "nice" on a given device. An HTML document has all of the information necessary to make the right choices. If your layout software is not smart enough to take advantage of that information it is a problem with the layout software and not with HTML. Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 05:59:54 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25930; Fri, 30 Jun 95 05:59:54 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA29077; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 08:55:49 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 08:54:43 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9506301255.AA29077@www19> From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net> Message-Id: <199506301254.IAA04593@clark.net> Subject: Re: Glossaries (was: footnotes in HTML3...) To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 08:54:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <MICHAELJ.950630074820@relay.relay.com> from "Michael Johnson" at Jun 30, 95 07:48:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1375 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/998 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Michael Johnson once wrote... > > >At 9:43 AM 95.6.7 -0400, Michael Johnson wrote: > >>Keith Rogers writes: > >>>I assume that the glossary link is described in some other > >>>document. Could you tell me where I could find this information? > >> > >>Check out http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people.dsr/html3/CoverPage.html which is a > >>hypertext version of Dave Raggett's HTML 3.0 IETF draft. > > > >First of all, the correct URL is > > > >http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html3/CoverPage.html > > Sorry, finger check. I have only PPP access to the Web, and would like to obtain a complete local copy of the HTML v3 CoverPage.html and all its links downward, including images, etc. I have the draft text file, but this is not as convenient a reference as the hypertext version, and having to have the modem link up is also a bother. I've looked in vain for a mirror robot that could fetch it for me; it seems that things of this nature are closely kept Secrets Of The Web Cabal. :) -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%% "[IBM] ... has often been criticized by customers for its inability to supply systems in a timely fashion, but >>Ozzie Osborne<<, general manager of IBM's commercial desktop systems ... says recent enhancements ... are beginning to pay off..." [emphasis added] _Information Week_, May 22, 1995, page 26 From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 07:04:09 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27935; Fri, 30 Jun 95 07:04:09 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA07376; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 09:59:18 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 09:51:51 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9506301359.AA07376@www19> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 09:51:51 -0400 From: kief@utk.edu (Kief Morris) Subject: Re: Netscape's TITLE/BODY crawl/dissolve hacks done right? X-Sender: kief@utkvx To: www-html@www10.w3.org Cc: atotic@netscape.com, bobj@netscape.com Message-Id: <01HSBA0VDLLU8ZIZWH@utkvx.utk.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Eudora-Demo: NOT FOR RESALE - 90 DAY DEMONSTRATION COPY Content-Length: 749 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1000 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 05:20 AM 6/30/95 -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >Since having multiple <TITLE> and <BODY> tags is broken HTML (how's that >for an understatement?), here's a suggestion for using attributes >instead... Are you talking about the "Server Push" Netscape 1.1 implements using Multipart content types? If so, the concept isn't that there's one document with multiple <TITLE> and <BODY> tags, but that there are multiple documents. I think it's better to go along the lines of existing standards (MIME) rather than inventing new ones whenever possible. If you're not talking about "Server Push", then I'm curious about what you are talking about that has the behavior you described. It's impossible to keep track of what everyone's cooking up. Kief From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 08:54:17 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01918; Fri, 30 Jun 95 08:54:17 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA17442; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 11:48:19 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 15:43:37 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <9506301548.AA17442@www19> From: dba@althingi.is Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 15:43:37 GMT Message-Id: <199506301543.PAA18152@freki.althingi.is> To: www-html@w3.org Subject: Re: censored formfeeds X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1481 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1001 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Prescod writes: > It is the responsibility >of the displayer or formatter program to make sure that the document >looks "nice" on a given device. In the case of plaintext and pre the formatter should not be doing any formatting it should simply pass the text or whatever through, why should it not pass some characters through, why should FF be censored. It is contrary to all unix philosophy to overspecify in this way. > There should be nothing in an HTML >document that is specific to a particular device. How is the <a> tag implemented on the printer - it is very specific to the interactive platform. > If your layout software is not smart >enough to take advantage of that information it is a problem with the >layout software and not with HTML. It is not a question of my layout software. It is a question of what other people get when they print out the things that I present on the web. In a plaintext document (like report from a database) I might put a comment "Print this document as HTML then page headers will stay in place" In Mosaic you can choose to print as HTML but some browsers dont offer that and if there is a document with mixed markup text and plaintext or pre then I will get all the markup printed so this is no solution. -- Thorvaldur Gunnlaugsson \ The Parliament of Iceland thg@althingi.is \ comp. departm. Vonarstr 8 voice:354-5630655 fax:5630670 \ 150 REYKJAVIK From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 09:11:44 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02816; Fri, 30 Jun 95 09:11:44 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA19451; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 12:08:39 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 12:07:10 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9506301608.AA19451@www19> From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-Id: <199506301607.MAA22157@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: censored formfeeds To: dba@althingi.is Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 12:07:10 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@w3.org In-Reply-To: <199506301543.PAA18152@freki.althingi.is> from "dba@althingi.is" at Jun 30, 95 03:43:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1363 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1003 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > > It is the responsibility > >of the displayer or formatter program to make sure that the document > >looks "nice" on a given device. > > In the case of plaintext and pre the formatter > should not be doing any formatting it should simply pass the > text or whatever through, why should it not pass some characters > through, why should FF be censored. It is contrary to all unix > philosophy to overspecify in this way. I was referring to your question about why HTML can't specify printer formatting precisely. If your formatter strips out certain characters in PRE, I don't see that as an HTML problem. (although I do see that usage of PRE as contrary to the philosophy of HTML) > How is the <a> tag implemented on the printer - it is very specific > to the interactive platform. <A HREF="http://www.foo.com">foo corp.</A> would become foo corp.(1) (1)See also http://www.foo.com The concept of a "reference" is much older than hypertext. In fact, perhaps "HREF" should be just "REF". > It is not a question of my layout software. > It is a question of what other people get when they print out > the things that I present on the web. HTML is not meant to be optimized for any particular device. It is realtively easy to provide postscript (or formatted text) versions of the document for those that want to print it. Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 10:51:37 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07159; Fri, 30 Jun 95 10:51:37 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA26531; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 13:37:07 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 10:46:01 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9506301737.AA26531@www19> Message-Id: <v02120d01ac19e7b3bb8c@[204.62.132.53]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Url: http://www.hotwired.com/ X-Favorite-Food: Pork, of course... Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 10:46:01 -0700 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: jeff@wired.com (jeffrey veen) Subject: Re: Netscape's TITLE/BODY crawl/dissolve hacks done right? Content-Length: 662 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1005 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 5:20 AM 6/30/95, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >Since having multiple <TITLE> and <BODY> tags is broken HTML (how's that >for an understatement?), here's a suggestion for using attributes >instead... that seems awfully limiting. why not just add support for applets (like, say, Java) that let you do anything you want in your browser window? No need to go mucking up a simple markup language with Director-style page transitions... ____________________________________________________________________________ Jeffrey Veen, HotWired http://www.veen.com/Veen/Jeff/ jeff@hotwired.com San Francisco, CA USA From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 12:32:24 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12345; Fri, 30 Jun 95 12:32:24 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA05585; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 15:16:12 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 11:48:06 PST Resent-Message-Id: <9506301916.AA05585@www19> Subject: Re: censored formfeeds In-Reply-To: <199506301543.PAA18152@freki.althingi.is> From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 11:48:06 PST Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Message-Id: <19950630.76D6DF0.A777@contessa.phone.net> To: www-html@w3.org Content-Length: 1209 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1006 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > > There should be nothing in an HTML > >document that is specific to a particular device. > How is the <a> tag implemented on the printer - it is very specific > to the interactive platform. No, it isn't specific to the interactive platform. If you use bad HTML printing software (i.e. - what's built into most browsers), it ignores it. That's always an option. Good software can be configured to present the URL inline, or to make it a footnote or endnote. > It is a question of what other people get when they print out > the things that I present on the web. > In a plaintext document (like report from a database) I might put a comment > "Print this document as HTML then page headers will stay in place" > In Mosaic you can choose to print as HTML but some browsers dont offer > that and if there is a document with mixed markup text and plaintext or pre > then I will get all the markup printed so this is no solution. Like I said, most browsers have lousy printing software. The solution is to beat on the authors of the browsers to provide better software. Until they fix things, a work-around is to provide a postscript or flat text version of the page, formatted the way you want it. <mike From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 12:42:40 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12822; Fri, 30 Jun 95 12:42:40 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA06807; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 15:36:04 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 12:34:53 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9506301936.AA06807@www19> X-Sender: boo@mailhost.primenet.com Message-Id: <v01510104ac1a00b97996@[198.68.46.28]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Web-Site: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ X-Ftp-Site: ftp://ftp.primenet.com/users/b/boo Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 12:34:53 -0700 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) Subject: Re: Web Files Manager Content-Length: 916 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1007 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 06:46a 06/28/95, Kim Lo wrote: > Subject Time Date > Web Files Manager 1:39 PM 6/28/95 > >Anyone knows of a converter from Word native format to html? So far, all I've >seen is filter from rtf to html. There is an AppleScript program for the Macintosh which converts a Word 6.0 document (including tables!) into HTML, using Apple Events communication with Word (so you need the app too). I don't know of anything for Windows. -Walter # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Walter Ian Kaye: (602) 942-6390 FoxPro/Excel Programmer; Guitarist # # Correspond to: boo@primenet.com, boodlums@genie.com # # BinHex files: boo@primenet.com WWW: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 14:24:16 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17194; Fri, 30 Jun 95 14:24:16 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA14100; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 17:19:30 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 17:16:46 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9506302119.AA14100@www19> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 17:16:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam Thodey <athodey@engin.umich.edu> Subject: <LINK> tag To: www-html@www10.w3.org Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9506301746.C26362-0100000@xnor.engin.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1172 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1008 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I was wondering what the Typical relationships are for the <LINK> tag? or where I could find, on the WEB, the entire list. I already have the 3.0 specs for nagivations buttons, baner and style sheets. I also have listed "made", i was wondering what else there was. Thank you ADAM +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | An Aerospace Engineering Student at the University of Michigan, USA | | Adam M. Thodey athodey@engin.umich.edu | | Personal Homepage on the WEB http://www.engin.umich.edu/~athodey | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Laughter Has No Foreign Accent | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Residence Halls Association http://www.umich.edu/~athodey/rha/ | | Michigan Solar Car Team http://www.engin.umich.edu/solarcar/ | | W8UM Amateur Radio Club http://www.engin.umich.edu/~jgotts/w8um.html | | Michigan Men's Waterpolo | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 18:00:18 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25496; Fri, 30 Jun 95 18:00:18 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA27216; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 08:36:09 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 05:34:02 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9506301236.AA27216@www19> X-Sender: boo@mailhost.primenet.com Message-Id: <v01510104ac199e224f96@[198.68.46.94]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Web-Site: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ X-Ftp-Site: ftp://ftp.primenet.com/users/b/boo Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 05:34:02 -0700 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) Subject: Re: Proposed HTML 2.0 Entities - Rendering Errors Content-Length: 1124 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/996 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 01:00p 06/27/95, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >You might want to check my character set page. I still have to change its >title from iso-8859-1 since it's not precisely that, but it's got footnotes >as to which of the ISO characters are not in the Macintosh (standard) >character set. > > http://www.primenet.com/~boo/iso-8859-1.html I've changed my table AND its filename. Here's the new URL: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/doc-charset.html Please update any links you have (although the old file is replaced with one containing a link to the new page). And if there is anyone out there with a copy of the ISO-10646 standard, please let me know -- I need some 5-digit codes to insert into the character table... Thanks, -Walter :) # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Walter Ian Kaye: (602) 942-6390 FoxPro/Excel Programmer; Guitarist # # Correspond to: boo@primenet.com, boodlums@genie.com # # BinHex files: boo@primenet.com WWW: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 18:33:44 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26722; Fri, 30 Jun 95 18:33:44 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA01228; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 09:13:10 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 09:06:59 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9506301313.AA01228@www19> Subject: Re: Glossaries (was: footnotes in HTML3...) References: <199506301254.IAA04593@clark.net> Message-Id: <MICHAELJ.950630090659@relay.relay.com> From: michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson) To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 09:06:59 EDT Content-Length: 314 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/999 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list According to Dave Raggett's home page (http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/) there is a compressed tar file of the source html files available. It is 15,346 bytes and the URL is http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html3.tar.Z I grabbed it a while back and refer to it often. Michael Johnson Relay Technology, Inc. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 18:46:36 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27166; Fri, 30 Jun 95 18:46:36 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA27142; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 21:43:41 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 20:19:59 CDT Resent-Message-Id: <9507010143.AA27142@www19> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 20:19:59 CDT From: Geoff Baysinger <gbaysing@hiwaay.net> Subject: RE: Security Issues and Browsers To: a05wlehotz@attmail.com, www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailer: Chameleon ARM_55, TCP/IP for Windows, NetManage Inc. Message-Id: <Chameleon.950630204447.gbaysing@sill'usion.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Length: 4426 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1009 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >Cana "Browser" be written so that a Network/Security Admin could "check" >on the User? If it's the admin on the user's end ... not without filtering all of the user's IP traffic, a very dirty process, would take a LOT of machine time and would definitely be a privacy issue ... I'd drop any service I thought was monitoring me (beyond the time online issue, which SHOULD be monitored by connect time, not traffic) If you wanted to write your own browser and force the user to use it, then I suppose you could log all the statistics and have them sent to you ... essentially the user would be unable to use other browsers, something I would like almost as little as having my traffic monitored, but it could do anything you requested below (which, to some extent AOL, and Prodigy do ... I believe Netcom now allows users to choose their browser.) An option you MIGHT look into is using a Proxy server ... Cern and Netsite (from the makers of Netscape) make WWW servers that can be used as proxies ... a Proxy goes and gets the document for the user, then feeds it to their browser ... you could monitor alot, if not all, the information you wanted through server logs ... and you could hack the server code (if you can get it) to include anything your logs don't already keep ... You'd HAVE to run your machine behind a firewall, which would then force the browsers to go to the proxy server (not all browsers support proxies, but they are becoming more common) ... Actually, if this option works (using a proxy server) I applaud that ... I would much rather have my time limited to actual traffic than to connect time if I had a -daily- limit ... but still dislike the idea of monitoring where the user goes! On Fri, 30 Jun 1995 12:17:37 -0500 (CDT) Willy Lehotz wrote: >Question 1: > Check one is the Time the user started a session. > Check two is the IP the user requests > Check three is lenght of "surf" time. > Check four did user "save to disk" any GIFS\JPG. You can't do this (#4) -period- with a proxy server ... you would require homemade browser ... (why do you need to know this?) > Check five is end of session. ><see where I am going with this?> Yes, and it's kinda scary > >Question 2: >Can the browser be written to limit time <such as in a timer>? Well, as you may have guessed, you can write your browser to do whatever you want ... you could also probably do some hacking on a proxy server to only allow users to use it for a certain amount of time, and then feed a message that their time is up ... you'd probably have to use Cern as I doubt MCom (Netsite) would release their code without a CHUNK of change ... > >Question 3: >Can the browser output this information into a log file or could it >be configured to start up an internal "homepage" and the information be >captured at this point? Hmm, almost all browsers can load a homepage automatically .. if you want it to be local to the user you would need to code that into the initial setup program, and not let the user edit it (not very easy, nor should it be, it's their machine). You could also write the browser to always go to a page on YOUR machine (the server), and each time it does so upload a log of their previous traffic, which would mean their data for previous traffic would never be -completely- up to date unless they start up their browser, then immediately shut it down.... You could also have an "exit" routine where, whenever the user closes the browser, it makes a quick connection to you to upload traffic data (it could be stored in memory, thereby making it much harder for the user to tamper with) > >Last question? >What would be a recommended program language for this task, <if it canbe >done at all>. Well, it would probably whatever language you initial browser code was in .. probably C ... unless you want to start from scratch .. > > Willy Lehotz - Web Master in training >USDA - Consolidated Farm Service Agency >http://bbskc.kcc.usda.gov/cfsa.htm <Choose the CFSA BBS, Email to Sysop> >E-Mail a05wlehotz@attmail.com >Voice 816-823-1910 > > ________________________________________________________ Sent on 06/30/95 at 20:20:00 by ... GBaysing@HiWAAY.net == Geoff Baysinger http://Fly.HiWAAY.net/~gbaysing WWW@HiWAAY.net == Webmaster-HiWAAY Info. Services http://WWW.HiWAAY.net/ From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 22:05:31 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01996; Fri, 30 Jun 95 22:05:31 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA18577; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 11:59:19 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 11:56:28 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9506301559.AA18577@www19> Message-Id: <199506301556.LAA13848@beach.w3.org> To: dba@althingi.is Cc: www-html@w3.org Subject: Re: censored formfeeds In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jun 1995 15:43:37 GMT." <199506301543.PAA18152@freki.althingi.is> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 11:56:28 -0400 From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org> Content-Length: 2800 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1002 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list In message <199506301543.PAA18152@freki.althingi.is>, dba@althingi.is writes: > >In the case of plaintext and pre the formatter >should not be doing any formatting it should simply pass the >text or whatever through, why should it not pass some characters >through, why should FF be censored. It is contrary to all unix >philosophy to overspecify in this way. What's Unix philosophy got to do with the price of tea in china? No FF character appears in any conforming HTML document. If you've got an FF character, the behaviour of any user agent is unspecified. See: Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 - Characters, Words, and Paragraphs Fri Jun 16 19:56:22 1995 http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_6.html#SEC64 |The HTML Document Character Set | |[...] | |In SGML applications, the use of control characters is limited in order to |maximize the chance of successful interchange over heterogeneous |networks and operating systems. In the HTML document character set |only three control characters are allowed: Horizontal Tab, Carriage |Return, and Line Feed (code positions 9, 13, and 10). >> There should be nothing in an HTML >>document that is specific to a particular device. > >How is the <a> tag implemented on the printer - it is very specific >to the interactive platform. Bull-pucky. Ever heard of footnotes? Ever used the linemode browser? e.g. connolly@www20 ../Workshop9507[506] www -n -listrefs http://www.w3.org/ >~/,xxx The World Wide Web Initiative: The Project WWWTHE WORLD WIDE WEB ___________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium The World Wide Web Consortium[1] promotes the Web by producing specifications[2] and reference software[3]. [...] *** References from this document *** [1] http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Consortium/ [2] http://www.w3.org/#zSpecifications [3] http://www.w3.org/#zReference ... >> If your layout software is not smart >>enough to take advantage of that information it is a problem with the >>layout software and not with HTML. > >It is not a question of my layout software. >It is a question of what other people get when they print out >the things that I present on the web. Sure sounds like a question of layout software -- the _client_'s layout software. >In a plaintext document (like report from a database) I might put a comment >"Print this document as HTML then page headers will stay in place" >In Mosaic you can choose to print as HTML but some browsers dont offer >that bingo. "layout software" issue. > and if there is a document with mixed markup text and plaintext or pre >then I will get all the markup printed so this is no solution. Huh? Dan From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jun 30 22:33:57 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02551; Fri, 30 Jun 95 22:33:57 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA23286; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 13:19:52 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 12:17:37 -0500 (CDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9506301719.AA23286@www19> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 12:17:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Willy Lehotz <wlehotz@mail.coin.missouri.edu> X-Sender: wlehotz@bigcat To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Security Issues and Browsers Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950630115816.29618A-100000@bigcat> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 928 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1004 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Question 1: Can a "Browser" be written so that a Network/Security Admin could "check" on the User? Check one is the Time the user started a session. Check two is the IP the user requests Check three is lenght of "surf" time. Check four did user "save to disk" any GIFS\JPG. Check five is end of session. <see where I am going with this?> Question 2: Can the browser be written to limit time <such as in a timer>? Question 3: Can the browser output this information into a log file or could the browser be configured to start up an internal "homepage" and the information be captured at this point? Last question? What would be a recommended program language for this task, <if it can be done at all>. Willy Lehotz - Web Master in training USDA - Consolidated Farm Service Agency http://bbskc.kcc.usda.gov/cfsa.htm <Choose the CFSA BBS, Email to Sysop> E-Mail a05wlehotz@attmail.com Voice 816-823-1910 From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sat Jul 1 20:12:24 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27034; Sat, 1 Jul 95 20:12:24 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA25450; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 23:06:17 -0400 Resent-Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 23:05:02 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507020306.AA25450@www19> From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net> Message-Id: <199507020305.XAA12033@clark.net> Subject: Suppress scroll bars - an idea To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 23:05:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1816 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1010 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I really like the experimental <style> tags. I realize that HTML is device-independent, and so I applaud the effort to allow authors some control over presentation, by implementing an optional tag where hints can be placed, outside the context of the body. Now if only Mozilla would start supporting this stuff. :) I have a suggestion for another style attribute: no-scrollbars. I don't know about any of you, but I find it tiresome to use a scrollbar on a long page, or have to shift to using the keyboard PgUp/PgDn keys to navigate. My idea for a <style> attribute would turn off the browser scroll-bars (if it has any), and use paging buttons instead to format the presentation (if appropriate for the browser). I'm thinking of a set of buttons somewhere on the controls for the browser, or on the page itself, which would let you go one page forward, backwards, to the top, or to the bottom. I've sort of done this on some Web pages I am writing, by sizing each page so that it fits into the window size of the popular Unix browsers, as they show with the default resources. This gives the whole site a kiosk or slide-show feel, and you can navigate through it with just mouse clicks. Of course, a Windows user at 640x480 standard VGA is going to have to scroll, or at least hit the PgDn key once to see all the pages (and reach the link buttons I placed at the bottom of each page for navigation). Any comments? -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%% "[IBM] ... has often been criticized by customers for its inability to supply systems in a timely fashion, but >>Ozzie Osborne<<, general manager of IBM's commercial desktop systems ... says recent enhancements ... are beginning to pay off..." [emphasis added] _Information Week_, May 22, 1995, page 26 From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sat Jul 1 20:23:02 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27262; Sat, 1 Jul 95 20:23:02 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA25600; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 23:16:27 -0400 Resent-Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 23:15:38 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507020316.AA25600@www19> From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net> Message-Id: <199507020315.XAA14454@clark.net> Subject: Using accept headers to distinguish clients To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 23:15:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 263 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1011 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list The HTML 3.0 docs suggest using the accept headers so the server can distinguish a client that can or cannot render HTML 3.0, and offer alternate pages. How is this accomplished? -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sat Jul 1 22:16:23 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29217; Sat, 1 Jul 95 22:16:23 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA26281; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 01:10:54 -0400 Resent-Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 22:10:20 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507020510.AA26281@www19> X-Sender: boo@mailhost.primenet.com Message-Id: <v01510105ac1bd8c6acfb@[198.68.46.62]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Web-Site: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ X-Ftp-Site: ftp://ftp.primenet.com/users/b/boo Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 22:10:20 -0700 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea Content-Length: 1827 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1012 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 11:05p 07/01/95, Mike Batchelor wrote: >I have a suggestion for another style attribute: no-scrollbars. I don't >know about any of you, but I find it tiresome to use a scrollbar on a long >page, or have to shift to using the keyboard PgUp/PgDn keys to navigate. >My idea for a <style> attribute would turn off the browser scroll-bars (if >it has any), and use paging buttons instead to format the presentation (if >appropriate for the browser). I'm thinking of a set of buttons somewhere >on the controls for the browser, or on the page itself, which would let >you go one page forward, backwards, to the top, or to the bottom. > >I've sort of done this on some Web pages I am writing, by sizing each page >so that it fits into the window size of the popular Unix browsers, as they >show with the default resources. This gives the whole site a kiosk or >slide-show feel, and you can navigate through it with just mouse clicks. >Of course, a Windows user at 640x480 standard VGA is going to have to >scroll, or at least hit the PgDn key once to see all the pages (and reach >the link buttons I placed at the bottom of each page for navigation). > >Any comments? Re "no-scrollbars": No way, no how, nu-uh. Bad bad bad. Re browser buttons: Hear, hear! This is a good thing. Microsoft Excel and Word have facilities in their languages for creating button bars, and it would be super to have support for that in a web browser. -Walter # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Walter Ian Kaye: (415) 965-4517 FoxPro/Excel Programmer; Guitarist # # Correspond to: boo@primenet.com, boodlums@genie.com # # BinHex files: boo@primenet.com WWW: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jul 2 09:55:37 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11640; Sun, 2 Jul 95 09:55:37 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA01761; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 12:49:33 -0400 Resent-Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 12:48:49 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507021649.AA01761@www19> From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net> Message-Id: <199507021648.MAA09908@clark.net> Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 12:48:49 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <v01510105ac1bd8c6acfb@[198.68.46.62]> from "Walter Ian Kaye" at Jul 1, 95 10:10:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1151 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1013 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Walter Ian Kaye once wrote... > > At 11:05p 07/01/95, Mike Batchelor wrote: > >I have a suggestion for another style attribute: no-scrollbars. I don't > >know about any of you, but I find it tiresome to use a scrollbar on a long > > > >Any comments? > > > Re "no-scrollbars": No way, no how, nu-uh. Bad bad bad. Why why why. Flat declarations do little to illuminate your thinking. > Re browser buttons: Hear, hear! This is a good thing. > > Microsoft Excel and Word have facilities in their languages for creating > button bars, and it would be super to have support for that in a web > browser. I stumbled across a reference to this regarding the <LINK> tag, but no details were given. Possibly the ability to do this is already present in HTML 3. -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%% "[IBM] ... has often been criticized by customers for its inability to supply systems in a timely fashion, but >>Ozzie Osborne<<, general manager of IBM's commercial desktop systems ... says recent enhancements ... are beginning to pay off..." [emphasis added] _Information Week_, May 22, 1995, page 26 From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jul 2 10:15:55 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11987; Sun, 2 Jul 95 10:15:55 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02118; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 13:10:20 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 01:09:32 +0800 Resent-Message-Id: <9507021710.AA02118@www19> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 01:09:32 +0800 From: Frank Wang <wang@durian.usc.edu.ph> Message-Id: <9507021709.AA05103@durian.usc.edu.ph> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: HTML Primer in text format X-Newsreader: wsOMR v1.02b X-Mailer: wsOMR v1.02b Content-Length: 84 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1014 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Hello All, Does anybody have a HTML Primer in plain text format? Rgds, -Frank- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jul 2 11:59:24 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14092; Sun, 2 Jul 95 11:59:24 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA06155; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 14:53:50 -0400 Resent-Date: Sun, 2 Jul 95 08:59 WET Resent-Message-Id: <9507021853.AA06155@www19> Message-Id: <m0sSUFJ-000izcC@malasada.lava.net> Date: Sun, 2 Jul 95 08:59 WET From: bob@lava.net (Robert P Cunningham) To: wang@durian.usc.edu.ph, www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: HTML Primer in text format Content-Length: 231 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1015 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > Does anybody have a HTML Primer in plain text format? See my Html Quick & Dirty Reference Guide at: http://www.lava.net/~bob/webmasters/html.quick.reference.txt Disclaimer, there are probably better ones around somewhere... From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jul 2 12:35:51 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14933; Sun, 2 Jul 95 12:35:51 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA06530; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 15:29:33 -0400 Resent-Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 12:28:44 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507021929.AA06530@www19> X-Sender: boo@mailhost.primenet.com Message-Id: <v01510101ac1ca1fef3e7@[198.68.46.139]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Web-Site: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ X-Ftp-Site: ftp://ftp.primenet.com/users/b/boo Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 12:28:44 -0700 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea Content-Length: 1281 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1016 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 12:48p 07/02/95, Mike Batchelor wrote: >Walter Ian Kaye once wrote... >> >> At 11:05p 07/01/95, Mike Batchelor wrote: >> >I have a suggestion for another style attribute: no-scrollbars. I don't >> >know about any of you, but I find it tiresome to use a scrollbar on a long >> > >> >Any comments? >> >> >> Re "no-scrollbars": No way, no how, nu-uh. Bad bad bad. > >Why why why. Flat declarations do little to illuminate your thinking. 1. Scrollbars are platform-specific, HTML is platform-independent. 2. Use (or non-use) of scrollbars is a personal preference. 3. Page size is platform-specific, so there is no way your page could know whether it fits on a given screen (and even if it did, HTML does not have if/then/else programming constructs. 4. Not all keyboards have page up/down keys. See item 1. 5. You would give a Macintosh user a heart attack. See item 1. -Walter :) # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Walter Ian Kaye: (415) 965-4517 FoxPro/Excel Programmer; Guitarist # # Correspond to: boo@primenet.com, boodlums@genie.com # # BinHex files: boo@primenet.com WWW: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jul 2 15:09:14 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18116; Sun, 2 Jul 95 15:09:14 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AB06777; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 15:32:18 -0400 Resent-Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 12:30:35 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507021932.AB06777@www19> X-Sender: boo@mailhost.primenet.com Message-Id: <v01510102ac1ca41f7409@[198.68.46.139]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Web-Site: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ X-Ftp-Site: ftp://ftp.primenet.com/users/b/boo Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 12:30:35 -0700 To: Frank Wang <wang@durian.usc.edu.ph>, www-html@www10.w3.org From: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) Subject: Re: HTML Primer in text format Content-Length: 160 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1017 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 01:09a 07/03/95, Frank Wang wrote: > > Does anybody have a HTML Primer in plain text format? Er, wouldn't that take all the fun out of it? ;) -Walter From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 3 01:21:37 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01562; Mon, 3 Jul 95 01:21:37 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA21473; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 04:14:01 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 09:55:58 +0530 (IST) Resent-Message-Id: <9507030814.AA21473@www19> X-Organisation: Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 09:55:58 +0530 (IST) From: Srivastava Nandini <nandini@henna.iitd.ernet.in> X-Sender: nandini@kriti To: Walter Ian Kaye <boo@primenet.com> Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: Web Files Manager In-Reply-To: <v01510104ac1a00b97996@[198.68.46.28]> Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950703095025.470C-100000@kriti> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 2201 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1018 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On Fri, 30 Jun 1995, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > At 06:46a 06/28/95, Kim Lo wrote: > > Subject Time Date > > Web Files Manager 1:39 PM 6/28/95 > > > >Anyone knows of a converter from Word native format to html? So far, all I've > >seen is filter from rtf to html. > > > There is an AppleScript program for the Macintosh which converts a Word 6.0 > document (including tables!) into HTML, using Apple Events communication > with Word (so you need the app too). I don't know of anything for Windows. > > > -Walter > > # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # > # Walter Ian Kaye: (602) 942-6390 FoxPro/Excel Programmer; Guitarist # > # Correspond to: boo@primenet.com, boodlums@genie.com # > # BinHex files: boo@primenet.com WWW: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ # > # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # > I am sending a e-mail/address that will certainly help you in locating ANT_HTML Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0 to HTML Conversion This HTML template editor uses hidden text to insert HTML codes into any new or previously prepared Word document or any ASCII document. (The hidden codes are visible to HTML browsers.) Type as you normally would and use the tools as described. The editor is designed so that almost everything but typing the text is done for you automatically The ANT_HTML.DOT Version 2.0 template is offered as shareware for a nominal fee. The following address will help you. Send a mail. Jill Swift P. O. Box 213 Montgomery, Texas 77356 jswift@freenet.fsu.edu nandini@iitd.ernet.in ------------------------------------------------------------------- Nandini Srivastava ERNET Lab phone: 91-11-6867431 Deptt of Comp .Sc. & Engg fax : 91-11-6868765 IIT Hauz Khas, N.Delhi-16 email: nandini@iitd.ernet.in WWW : http://www.iitd.ernet.in/~nandini ------------------------------------------------------------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 3 02:09:03 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02585; Mon, 3 Jul 95 02:09:03 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA22105; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 05:03:30 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1995 18:02:23 +0900 Resent-Message-Id: <9507030903.AA22105@www19> Message-Id: <199507030902.SAA11146@dufay.nichigai.co.jp> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1995 18:02:23 +0900 From: Yutaka Tsutsumi <maynard@nichigai.co.jp> Content-Length: 34 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1019 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list subcribe www-html Yutaka Tsutsumi From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 3 03:46:28 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05086; Mon, 3 Jul 95 03:46:28 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA23088; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 06:40:20 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 11:40:21 +0100 (BST) Resent-Message-Id: <9507031040.AA23088@www19> From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk> Message-Id: <28733.9507031040@afs.mcc.ac.uk> Subject: Re: your mail To: brian@organic.com (Brian Behlendorf) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 11:40:21 +0100 (BST) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9506271147.i10466-0100000@eat.organic.com> from "Brian Behlendorf" at Jun 27, 95 11:34:25 am Organisation: Computer Graphics Unit, University of Manchester, UK Phone: +44 0161 275 6045 Fax: +44 0161 275 6040 Operating-System: some HP unix thingy X-Uri: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Content-Length: 2152 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1020 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Brian Behlendorf said: [about fine tuned content negotiation for images] > In general, though, I think this kind of fine-tune negotiation should > occur as *close* to the client as possible - so that if three people > behind the Hensa proxy cache want different bitdepths of the same image, > hensa can download the canonical version of the image and downconvert > accordingly if it wants, rather than store three different versions. The trade off between proxy filestore and image quality has been discussed before on this list. Those folks who see images as trivial decoration tend to prefer proxies playing fast and loose with image conversion, while those who treat graphics as important content tend to prefer image conversion done in a more controlled environment on the originating server. To use an analogy, bar.html could be converted by a proxy to bar.txt, and then, later, bar.txt might be converted to bar.html again (add <pre> and </pre>) but the result would loose something in the process. There is also the issue of which of a selection of image formats is the canonical one, and how to expire foo.8bit..palette.png and foo.gif once foo.64bit.best.png changes. In other words, even if proxy conversion was ok, how do we express the dependencies? Content-type: image/png Makefile: http://foo/bar/Makefile ;-) -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North HPC Training & Education Centre | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "The first W in WWW will not wait." François Yergeau | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 3 05:01:55 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06684; Mon, 3 Jul 95 05:01:55 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA24456; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 07:55:37 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 07:54:40 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507031155.AA24456@www19> From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net> Message-Id: <199507031154.HAA11062@clark.net> Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 07:54:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <v01510101ac1ca1fef3e7@[198.68.46.139]> from "Walter Ian Kaye" at Jul 2, 95 12:28:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1896 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1021 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Walter Ian Kaye once wrote... > > At 12:48p 07/02/95, Mike Batchelor wrote: > >Walter Ian Kaye once wrote... > >> > >> At 11:05p 07/01/95, Mike Batchelor wrote: > >> >I have a suggestion for another style attribute: no-scrollbars. I don't > >> >know about any of you, but I find it tiresome to use a scrollbar on a long > >> > > >> >Any comments? > >> > >> > >> Re "no-scrollbars": No way, no how, nu-uh. Bad bad bad. > > > >Why why why. Flat declarations do little to illuminate your thinking. > > 1. Scrollbars are platform-specific, HTML is platform-independent. > 2. Use (or non-use) of scrollbars is a personal preference. > 3. Page size is platform-specific, so there is no way your page > could know whether it fits on a given screen (and even if it > did, HTML does not have if/then/else programming constructs. > 4. Not all keyboards have page up/down keys. See item 1. > 5. You would give a Macintosh user a heart attack. See item 1. Ummmm.... Then perhaps I have misunderstood the <style> tag. I thought this was a place where the author could offer presentation suggestions, which the browser could implement, if it can, or if it was appropriate for the platform. Obviously, to-scroll-or-not-to-scroll has no meaning for a text-to-speech browser, and probably for lots of other applications. All I was suggesting was a way for an author to suggest to the browser that it should paginate the document, rather than scroll it, if the document was too long to fit on a single screen. -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%% "[IBM] ... has often been criticized by customers for its inability to supply systems in a timely fashion, but >>Ozzie Osborne<<, general manager of IBM's commercial desktop systems ... says recent enhancements ... are beginning to pay off..." [emphasis added] _Information Week_, May 22, 1995, page 26 From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 3 05:13:33 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06960; Mon, 3 Jul 95 05:13:33 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA24684; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 08:07:52 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 13:06:34 BST Resent-Message-Id: <9507031207.AA24684@www19> From: "Chris Tilbury" <C.J.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk> Organization: Estates, University of Warwick, UK To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 13:06:34 BST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Chris Tilbury" <C.J.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk> Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Message-Id: <B8EB656D75@forest.estate.warwick.ac.uk> Content-Length: 1601 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1022 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Mike Batchelor once wrote: > > >> >I have a suggestion for another style attribute: no-scrollbars. I don' t > > >> >know about any of you, but I find it tiresome to use a scrollbar on a long [snip] Later, he wrote: > Ummmm.... Then perhaps I have misunderstood the <style> tag. I thought > this was a place where the author could offer presentation suggestions, > which the browser could implement, if it can, or if it was appropriate for > the platform. Obviously, to-scroll-or-not-to-scroll has no meaning for a > text-to-speech browser, and probably for lots of other applications. I don't think you've misunderstood the style tag; it certainly is a more appropriate place for something like this than the actual document itself. However, something like this, which is so utterly browser dependent, isn't really anything to do with the "style" of the document, more to do with the "style" of the browser. > All I was suggesting was a way for an author to suggest to the browser > that it should paginate the document, rather than scroll it, if the > document was too long to fit on a single screen. I'd suggest that prompting the author of (insert your favourite browser here) to include an option to remove the scrollbar and to implement some form of "Page" metaphor instead, for navigation purposes, would be a better approach. (If they want other examples, tell them to get Softquad Panorama Free, and implement a <H*> based navigator pane like that :-). Cheers, Chris -- Chris.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk; MIME Mail Welcome Tel: +44 1203 523523x2665, Fax: +44 1203 524444 From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 3 05:29:08 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07380; Mon, 3 Jul 95 05:29:08 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA25071; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 08:26:37 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 08:25:56 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507031226.AA25071@www19> From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net> Message-Id: <199507031225.IAA20403@clark.net> Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 08:25:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <B8EB656D75@forest.estate.warwick.ac.uk> from "Chris Tilbury" at Jul 3, 95 01:06:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1803 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1023 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Chris Tilbury once wrote... > > I don't think you've misunderstood the style tag; it certainly is a > more appropriate place for something like this than the actual > document itself. However, something like this, which is so utterly > browser dependent, isn't really anything to do with the "style" of the > document, more to do with the "style" of the browser. > > > All I was suggesting was a way for an author to suggest to the browser > > that it should paginate the document, rather than scroll it, if the > > document was too long to fit on a single screen. > > I'd suggest that prompting the author of (insert your favourite > browser here) to include an option to remove the scrollbar and to > implement some form of "Page" metaphor instead, for navigation > purposes, would be a better approach. (If they want other examples, > tell them to get Softquad Panorama Free, and implement a <H*> > based navigator pane like that :-). Have I missed something again? Isn't it a feature of the <style> tag, and cascading style sheets, that the user of the browser can have his/her own local style sheet, and that the cascading style sheets interact with each other to produce a final style that is a combination of user and author presentation preferences? If so, then a browser that implemented style sheets would have the option to turn scroll bars on/off, if such a style attribute was part of the proposed <style> tags and sheets. The user would just turn them off or on in his/her personal style sheet. Q.E.D. :) The browser-specific feature is whether to allow the author to change that particular style element. My point is, that to page or to scroll seems to me to be a matter of presentation. -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 3 10:01:26 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15881; Mon, 3 Jul 95 10:01:26 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02045; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 12:59:23 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 18:57:43 +0200 Resent-Message-Id: <9507031659.AA02045@www19> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 18:57:43 +0200 Message-Id: <9507031657.AA03208@dxcern.cern.ch> To: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net> Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@w3.org Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea In-Reply-To: <199507031225.IAA20403@clark.net> References: <B8EB656D75@forest.estate.warwick.ac.uk> <199507031225.IAA20403@clark.net> From: "H&kon W Lie" <howcome@w3.org> Content-Length: 1825 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1024 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list [cross-posted to www-style@w3.org] Mike Batchelor writes: > Isn't it a feature of the <style> tag, and cascading style sheets, that > the user of the browser can have his/her own local style sheet, and that > the cascading style sheets interact with each other to produce a final > style that is a combination of user and author presentation preferences? True. > If so, then a browser that implemented style sheets would have the option > to turn scroll bars on/off, if such a style attribute was part of the > proposed <style> tags and sheets. True. The last implementation of style sheets in Arena [1] allows the style sheet to control presentation properties of the HTML source display. A more detailed descrition can be found in [2]. While this may seem to be a minor issue, it's a significant step from only being able to attach presentation properties to HTML (or SGML) tags. The hard part ahead is to figure out what sort of style properties should be on the sanctioned list, and whom (author/reader/both) should be able to influence them. Turning scroll-bars on and off seems quite specific to current GUIs. Also, just turning them off without describing any alternative comes close to being screen-size dependant. Instead, I would propose being able to set one out of several user interface metaphors (maybe window, page, VR), or saying something about the value of screen real-estate: if the user values it highly, scroll-bars -- along with the display of the URL -- would perhaps be taken away. Ultimately, one must leave some presentation descisions to the application. [1] http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Arena/0.97.html [2] http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Style/css/draft.html Regards, -h&kon Hakon W Lie, WWW project CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/People/howcome/ From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 3 15:11:33 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27199; Mon, 3 Jul 95 15:11:33 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA05911; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 18:08:35 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 18:06:48 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507032208.AA05911@www19> From: Steve <steve@mordred.gatech.edu> Message-Id: <199507032206.AA07762@mordred.gatech.edu > Subject: Re: Web Files Manager To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 18:06:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 725 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1025 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Many moons ago, Srivastava Nandini once said: > > >Anyone knows of a converter from Word native format to html? So far, all I've > > >seen is filter from rtf to html. [wonderful address of place offering converter for nominal fee deleted] Why not just check out <URL:http://www.microsoft.com/MSOffice/Word/ia/default.htm> Granted, it IS a Microsoft product, but I guess since they wrote Word, they (hopefully) know what they're doing ... besides, it's free! :-) steve _____________________________________________________________________________ Can't think of anything right now, other than the traditional e-mail address: steve@mordred.gatech.edu <a href="http://www.gatech.edu/steve/home.html">Steve's Page</a> From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 3 16:59:30 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00795; Mon, 3 Jul 95 16:59:30 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA06948; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 19:53:23 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 23:50:46 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <9507032353.AA06948@www19> From: dba@althingi.is Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 23:50:46 GMT Message-Id: <199507032350.XAA19842@freki.althingi.is> To: www-html@w3.org Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1270 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1026 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list A page is not just a layout question, a page is also an abstract concept, a basic unit of text. For instance we frequently print many pages on one sheet of paper. The blind feels what a page is and could be told about it like headers and anything else. A browser could have pageing rather than scrolling. The page is not so device specific. In HTML we can only deal with text on like paper rolls. When the paper rolls get long and numerous we realise that it would be nicer to have books with pages. This has happened before in history. Many things about pages should definately be dealt with only in style sheets but the page is so basic to our traditional way of working with text that outlawing it from HTML is going to cost a lot of trouble. Certainly when it does not cost any cluttering of the syntax we should give some thought to how the page idea fits in to what is decided. How is it going to hurt if formfeeds have their ordinary function as far as is reasonable. Browsers might show some kind of horizontal rendering or optionally act differently. -- Thorvaldur Gunnlaugsson \ The Parliament of Iceland thg@althingi.is \ comp. departm. Vonarstr 8 voice:354-5630655 fax:5630670 \ 150 REYKJAVIK From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 3 17:28:55 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01607; Mon, 3 Jul 95 17:28:55 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA07424; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 20:22:50 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 17:22:18 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507040022.AA07424@www19> X-Sender: boo@mailhost.primenet.com Message-Id: <v01510102ac1e3818ead1@[198.68.46.106]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Web-Site: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ X-Ftp-Site: ftp://ftp.primenet.com/users/b/boo Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 17:22:18 -0700 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea Content-Length: 2111 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1027 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 04:50p 07/03/95, dba@althingi.is wrote: >A browser could have pageing rather than scrolling. >The page is not so device specific. >In HTML we can only deal with text on like paper rolls. >When the paper rolls get long and numerous we realise that >it would be nicer to have books with pages. >This has happened before in history. >Many things about pages should definately be dealt with >only in style sheets but the page is so basic to our >traditional way of working with text that outlawing it >from HTML is going to cost a lot of trouble. >Certainly when it does not cost any cluttering of the >syntax we should give some thought to how the page idea fits >in to what is decided. No one is proposing outlawing it. The problem is that page size cannot be known in advance. To use your book metaphor, the hardcover might be twice the size of the pages, so the book won't fit on the shelf, except sideways maybe. Or the cover might be half the size of the pages, and the pages would get frayed. You could choose an arbitrary page size, but that would be making many assumptions. At least be sure no graphic is wider than 470 pixels, because that is the standard imaging area width for Netscape and Mosaic browsers when used on screens 640 pixels wide. Anyone with a 512-pixel wide screen or smaller would get the wrong size, although they're probably used to it already. ;) >How is it going to hurt if formfeeds have their ordinary >function as far as is reasonable. Browsers might show some >kind of horizontal rendering or optionally act differently. The HTML Document Character Set does not include the FF character. But then, there could be a tag (or attribute) as a hint, much like <WBR>'s raison d'etre. -Walter # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Walter Ian Kaye: (415) 965-4517 FoxPro/Excel Programmer; Guitarist # # Correspond to: boo@primenet.com, boodlums@genie.com # # BinHex files: boo@primenet.com WWW: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 3 18:56:12 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04075; Mon, 3 Jul 95 18:56:12 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA08269; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 21:50:22 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 21:49:13 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507040150.AA08269@www19> From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net> Message-Id: <199507040149.VAA11536@clark.net> Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea To: www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@www10.w3.org Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 21:49:13 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <v01510102ac1e3818ead1@[198.68.46.106]> from "Walter Ian Kaye" at Jul 3, 95 05:22:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 2484 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1028 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Walter Ian Kaye once wrote... > > At 04:50p 07/03/95, dba@althingi.is wrote: > > >A browser could have pageing rather than scrolling. > >The page is not so device specific. > >In HTML we can only deal with text on like paper rolls. > >When the paper rolls get long and numerous we realise that > >it would be nicer to have books with pages. > >This has happened before in history. > >Many things about pages should definately be dealt with > >only in style sheets but the page is so basic to our > >traditional way of working with text that outlawing it > >from HTML is going to cost a lot of trouble. > >Certainly when it does not cost any cluttering of the > >syntax we should give some thought to how the page idea fits > >in to what is decided. > > No one is proposing outlawing it. The problem is that page size cannot be > known in advance. The *browser* knows the page size, or even if there is a screen at all that can be paginated. Therefore, a make-page-breaks style attribute would tell the browser to paginate the document to best fit on the screen it has to work with. > To use your book metaphor, the hardcover might be twice > the size of the pages, so the book won't fit on the shelf, except sideways > maybe. Or the cover might be half the size of the pages, and the pages > would get frayed. > You could choose an arbitrary page size, but that would be making many > assumptions. At least be sure no graphic is wider than 470 pixels, because > that is the standard imaging area width for Netscape and Mosaic browsers > when used on screens 640 pixels wide. Anyone with a 512-pixel wide screen > or smaller would get the wrong size, although they're probably used to it > already. ;) Or, the browser could scale down images to fit the page it has to work with. This is probably a good idea regardless of whether you scroll or page through the document. Inline images are described as non-essential decoration, and the style guides I have read suggest using a link to a full-size image if the graphics are really essential. Therefore I think it's perfectly fine for the browser to down-size an image to fit the screen. If I'm not mistaken, the HTML 3 <IMG> tag will let you give attributes that define a size relative to the browser page, as well as specifying a size in pixels. It seems to me that resizing the page and paginating it is a natural extension of this idea. -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 3 22:01:56 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 ([18.52.0.17]) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08484; Mon, 3 Jul 95 22:01:56 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA16765; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 01:00:38 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 21:59:21 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507040500.AA16765@www19> X-Sender: boo@mailhost.primenet.com Message-Id: <v01510102ac1e7760c8f2@[198.68.46.222]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Web-Site: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ X-Ftp-Site: ftp://ftp.primenet.com/users/b/boo Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 21:59:21 -0700 To: www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@www10.w3.org From: boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea Content-Length: 2503 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1029 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 09:49p 07/03/95, Mike Batchelor wrote: >Walter Ian Kaye once wrote... >> >> The problem is that page size cannot be known in advance. > >The *browser* knows the page size, or even if there is a screen at all >that can be paginated. Therefore, a make-page-breaks style attribute >would tell the browser to paginate the document to best fit on the screen >it has to work with. > >> You could choose an arbitrary page size, but that would be making many >> assumptions. At least be sure no graphic is wider than 470 pixels, because >> that is the standard imaging area width for Netscape and Mosaic browsers >> when used on screens 640 pixels wide. Anyone with a 512-pixel wide screen >> or smaller would get the wrong size, although they're probably used to it >> already. ;) > >Or, the browser could scale down images to fit the page it has to work >with. This is probably a good idea regardless of whether you scroll or >page through the document. Inline images are described as non-essential >decoration, and the style guides I have read suggest using a link to a >full-size image if the graphics are really essential. Therefore I think >it's perfectly fine for the browser to down-size an image to fit the >screen. If I'm not mistaken, the HTML 3 <IMG> tag will let you give >attributes that define a size relative to the browser page, as well as >specifying a size in pixels. > >It seems to me that resizing the page and paginating it is a natural >extension of this idea. Scaling only works well on solid or striped images (such as puffy divider lines). If you have a graphic that is any more complex than that, the result of scaling will be an ugly blotch. I am speaking of 72dpi GIF images. Naturally 600dpi TIFF images scale acceptably due to their higher information content, but who wants to put up (or put up with) such huge graphics, even if TIFFs could be displayed by web browsers? Not I, not even if I had a T1 line. ;) I want to see graphics at 1:1 resolution, or not at all. And I want others to view my graphics the same way. Otherwise, my time creating the graphic is totally wasted! -Walter # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Walter Ian Kaye: (415) 965-4517 FoxPro/Excel Programmer; Guitarist # # Correspond to: boo@primenet.com, boodlums@genie.com # # BinHex files: boo@primenet.com WWW: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/ # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 4 01:22:05 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12516; Tue, 4 Jul 95 01:22:05 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA18855; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 04:20:01 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 01:18:27 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507040820.AA18855@www19> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 01:18:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Brooks <wbrooks@trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Image formats deleted from 3.0? In-Reply-To: <v01510102ac1e7760c8f2@[198.68.46.222]> Message-Id: <Pine.A32.3.91.950704011500.137605A-100000@trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 342 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1030 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list HTML 1.0 specified that image formats should be one of .xbm or .gif. But I can't find anything in the 3.0 standard that says whether or not JPEG is a supported format. Was this intentional? Or was it just to get around the whole .gif vs. .png issue? Maybe it's in some other section than where I expected to find it. Help me out. Bill From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 4 03:35:27 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15858; Tue, 4 Jul 95 03:35:27 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA21569; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 06:32:40 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 11:32:19 +0100 (BST) Resent-Message-Id: <9507041032.AA21569@www19> From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk> Message-Id: <4113.9507041032@afs.mcc.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea To: mikebat@clark.net (Mike Batchelor) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 11:32:19 +0100 (BST) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <199507040149.VAA11536@clark.net> from "Mike Batchelor" at Jul 3, 95 09:49:13 pm Organisation: Computer Graphics Unit, University of Manchester, UK Phone: +44 0161 275 6045 Fax: +44 0161 275 6040 Operating-System: some HP unix thingy X-Uri: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Content-Length: 4129 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1031 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Mike Batchelor said: > Walter Ian Kaye once wrote... > > You could choose an arbitrary page size, but that would be making many > > assumptions. At least be sure no graphic is wider than 470 pixels, because > > that is the standard imaging area width for Netscape and Mosaic browsers > > when used on screens 640 pixels wide. Anyone with a 512-pixel wide screen > > or smaller would get the wrong size, although they're probably used to it > > already. ;) You should either apply your "no bigger than" argument rigorously - and I bet someone could find a platform somewhere with a narrower screen width than 512 pixels - or apply your "probably used to it" argument to 640 pixels... Arguing from pixels is a poor choice in any case. Even sticking with computer screens there is a wide variation from 60 to 100 or more pixels per inch. Other devices such as dye sub printers have higher densities, and your 470 pixel image is going to look pretty tiny at 300dpi. > Or, the browser could scale down images to fit the page it has to work > with. This is probably a good idea regardless of whether you scroll or > page through the document. That is certainly an option, but should be under user control - the document author should indicate that a particular image is to be scaled to full screen width, or height. Depending on the aspect ratio of the graphic and the browser, either width or height might be the limiting factor. > Inline images are described as non-essential > decoration, Where? The HTML2.0 specification makes no such value judgement. http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_5.html#SEC62 I suspect you are confusing this with the description of the IMG tag in HTML 3.0, which is somewhat different as there is also a FIG tag. Do not make the assumption that all images are trivial decoration. That may be true in some cases - many cases, even - but is not universal. It is dangerous to suggest that browsers can play fast and loose with image data without warning. > and the style guides I have read suggest using a link to a > full-size image if the graphics are really essential. That is one way to do it, and with current browsers is likely to result in higher image quality when there are inadequate colours. There may be cases however where it is required to place the graphic in association with text, or to have selectable hotzones on the graphic, and this it must be presented inline. > Therefore I think > it's perfectly fine for the browser to down-size an image to fit the > screen. Only if the author explicitly requests this. Certainly until browsers start offering user preferences on image resampling. Current browsers resize by pixel replication which is fast and ugly. Other options should include bilinear interpolation, bicubic interpolation, and none. > If I'm not mistaken, the HTML 3 <IMG> tag will let you give > attributes that define a size relative to the browser page, as well as > specifying a size in pixels. No, both IMG and FIG take optional WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes plus a UNITS attribute (pixels or ens). No relation to the browser window. http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html/img.html http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html/figures.html However, HTML 3.0 is a draft spec and subject to change. -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North HPC Training & Education Centre | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "The first W in WWW will not wait." François Yergeau | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 4 03:54:20 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16256; Tue, 4 Jul 95 03:54:20 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA27910; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 06:52:39 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 11:51:18 +0100 (BST) Resent-Message-Id: <9507041052.AA27910@www19> From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk> Message-Id: <4270.9507041051@afs.mcc.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Image formats deleted from 3.0? To: wbrooks@trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu (Bill Brooks) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 11:51:18 +0100 (BST) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.950704011500.137605A-100000@trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu> from "Bill Brooks" at Jul 4, 95 01:18:27 am Organisation: Computer Graphics Unit, University of Manchester, UK Phone: +44 0161 275 6045 Fax: +44 0161 275 6040 Operating-System: some HP unix thingy X-Uri: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Content-Length: 2573 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1032 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Bill Brooks said: > HTML 1.0 specified that image formats should be one of .xbm or .gif. It was not in the 1.0 "spec", it was in the NCSA documentation if I recall correctly. And the three supported image formats were GIF87, XBM, and NCSA HDF. Remember that this was originally a browser specific extension to permit an HTML browser to be used in a distributed collaborative Sci Vis environment. There has never been any standardisation of the supported image formats because in theory the browser is supposed to specify what formats it can understand, per request, in the accept headers (so it becomesan HTTP issue, not an HTML issue). In practice of course, people generate what they see being widely used and servers rarely perform image format conversion - probably as well, since it is not trivial and the quality, expiry and consistency issues were never talked abnout very much. So in practice: GIF87 and 89 are currently almost universally supported. XBM is now widely supported but is a fairly poor format for most uses. XPM is used by some browsers. JPEG is widely used, now that Netscape and Mosaic on most platforms can display inline JPEG one could count it a reasonable choice for inline images TIFF, EPS, RLE, CGM, IrisRGB etc are not widely supported inline PNG is not currently widely supported inline > But I can't find anything in the 3.0 standard that says whether or not > JPEG is a supported format. Was this intentional? Or was it just to get > around the whole .gif vs. .png issue? Maybe it's in some other section > than where I expected to find it. Help me out. It is not there, and I suspect it is not likely to be. Go ahead and use it; you will not be in conflict with either the spec or with current practice. -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North HPC Training & Education Centre | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "The first W in WWW will not wait." François Yergeau | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 4 04:24:07 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16869; Tue, 4 Jul 95 04:24:07 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA06837; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 07:22:18 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 07:21:32 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507041122.AA06837@www19> From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-Id: <199507041121.HAA19709@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea To: mikebat@clark.net (Mike Batchelor) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 07:21:32 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <199507020305.XAA12033@clark.net> from "Mike Batchelor" at Jul 1, 95 11:05:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1131 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1033 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > I have a suggestion for another style attribute: no-scrollbars. I don't > know about any of you, but I find it tiresome to use a scrollbar on a long > page, or have to shift to using the keyboard PgUp/PgDn keys to navigate. > My idea for a <style> attribute would turn off the browser scroll-bars (if > it has any), and use paging buttons instead to format the presentation (if > appropriate for the browser). I'm thinking of a set of buttons somewhere > on the controls for the browser, or on the page itself, which would let > you go one page forward, backwards, to the top, or to the bottom. ... > Any comments? It seems like there are two concepts here: paging and the lack of scroll bars. Paging is provided for through "LINK." REL=Next The link references the next document to visit in a guided tour. REL=Previous The link references the previous document in a guided tour. A lack of scroll bars is just a browser-developer issue. If a document cannot be scrolled, the browser could dump the (useless) scroll bars to save screen real-estate. Have I misunderstood your suggestion? Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 4 04:36:32 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17114; Tue, 4 Jul 95 04:36:32 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA10351; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 07:34:32 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 07:33:18 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507041134.AA10351@www19> From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-Id: <199507041133.HAA21241@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea To: dba@althingi.is Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 07:33:18 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@w3.org In-Reply-To: <199507032350.XAA19842@freki.althingi.is> from "dba@althingi.is" at Jul 3, 95 11:50:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1089 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1034 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > A page is not just a layout question, a page is also > an abstract concept, a basic unit of text. For instance > we frequently print many pages on one sheet of paper. A page is _not_ a unit of text. Very few authors think in terms of pages. Most think in terms of "documents", "chapters" and/or "sections." The relationship of those entities to pages is up to the publisher. > The blind feels what a page is and could be told about it > like headers and anything else. But why would a blind person _care_ about a page? Even to sighted readers a page is often an annoying break in the middle of concpets. > A browser could have pageing rather than scrolling. LYNX already does have paging rather than scrolling. In fact, Mosaic and Netscape also both allow you to page through documents. > In HTML we can only deal with text on like paper rolls. > When the paper rolls get long and numerous we realise that > it would be nicer to have books with pages. That is where multiple HTML file come in. You can use multiple HTML files to make a single meta-document. Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 4 08:53:01 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23150; Tue, 4 Jul 95 08:53:01 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA13120; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 11:51:38 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 23:45:27 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507041551.AA13120@www19> Message-Id: <199507041540.XAA21183@b2.hkstar.com> X-Sender: dom@hkstar.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 23:45:27 -0400 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: dom@hkstar.com (Dominie Liang) Subject: Double mail rec'd Content-Length: 189 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1035 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I rec'd double mail. Somebody can help me? Best Rgds, Dominie Liang Best Rgds, Dominie Liang ======================= dom@hkstar.com URL : http://www.hkstar.com ======================= From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 4 10:35:50 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26073; Tue, 4 Jul 95 10:35:50 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA13846; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 13:34:41 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 10:33:19 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507041734.AA13846@www19> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 10:33:19 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric A. Perlman" <ericp@well.com> Subject: Re: Image formats deleted from 3.0? To: Bill Brooks <wbrooks@trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu> Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.950704011500.137605A-100000@trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu> Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9507041034.A15080-0100000@well> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 846 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1036 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On Tue, 4 Jul 1995, Bill Brooks wrote: > > HTML 1.0 specified that image formats should be one of .xbm or .gif. > But I can't find anything in the 3.0 standard that says whether or not > JPEG is a supported format. Was this intentional? Or was it just to get > around the whole .gif vs. .png issue? Maybe it's in some other section > than where I expected to find it. Help me out. This has nothing to do with HTML. but browsers. All browsers can display .xbm and .gif (prefered). New ones can display JPEG. -eric +----------------+----------------------------------------------+-------------+ | Eric A Perlman | http://www.yikes.com/ | SPLAT! | | ericp@well.com | http://crew.bhs.berkeley.k12.ca.us/Crew/ | /dev/null | +----------------+----------------------------------------------+-------------+ From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 4 13:43:04 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01256; Tue, 4 Jul 95 13:43:04 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA15430; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 16:39:08 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 95 13:29:50 PST Resent-Message-Id: <9507042039.AA15430@www19> Subject: Re: Image formats deleted from 3.0? In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9507041034.A15080-0100000@well> From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 95 13:29:50 PST Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Message-Id: <19950704.7624578.C7E0@contessa.phone.net> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Content-Length: 223 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1037 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > All browsers can display .xbm and .gif (prefered). New ones can display > JPEG. When did LYNX grow the ability to display images on a vt100? And what do you call the browsers that are doing inlined PNG and PS? <mike From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 5 07:37:32 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27380; Wed, 5 Jul 95 07:37:32 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA12045; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 10:31:25 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 16:25:40 +0200 Resent-Message-Id: <9507051431.AA12045@www19> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 16:25:40 +0200 From: mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it (Maurizio Codogno) Message-Id: <9507051425.AA18342@beatles.cselt.stet.it> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: How much can be considered "Server load"? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 396 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1038 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list ----- Begin Included Message ----- From mau Wed Jul 5 16:22:25 1995 To: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Subject: How much can be considered "Server load"? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Does anyone have some statistics about the load which a HTTP server can bear without too much hassle? I am interested in computing rather than bandwidth constraints. ciao, .mau. ----- End Included Message ----- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 5 10:32:12 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05185; Wed, 5 Jul 95 10:32:12 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA14121; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 13:25:57 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 13:24:32 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507051725.AA14121@www19> X-Sender: murray@filbx2.nttc.edu Message-Id: <v02110104ac2079876dab@[192.188.119.193]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Eudora-Demo: NOT FOR RESALE - 90 DAY DEMONSTRATION COPY Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 13:24:32 -0400 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: murray.altheim@nttc.edu (Murray Altheim) Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea Cc: lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk Content-Length: 1714 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1039 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >Mike Batchelor said: > >> Walter Ian Kaye once wrote... >> > You could choose an arbitrary page size, but that would be making many >> > assumptions. At least be sure no graphic is wider than 470 pixels, because >> > that is the standard imaging area width for Netscape and Mosaic browsers >> > when used on screens 640 pixels wide. Anyone with a 512-pixel wide screen >> > or smaller would get the wrong size, although they're probably used to it >> > already. ;) > >You should either apply your "no bigger than" argument rigorously - and I bet >someone could find a platform somewhere with a narrower screen width than >512 pixels - or apply your "probably used to it" argument to 640 pixels... I hate to jump into this fray with a minor point, but screen size isn't the issue here. It's window size, and users can resize their browser windows as small as they like. I certainly don't open mine to full screen width all the time, and it certainly has been narrower than 512 pixels at times. HTML should remain browser and platform independent. There, I've said it. While style sheets may hint, any assumptions whatsoever about the browser or platform are bound to run into difficulties. I for one am VERY glad that we have hard-of-sight and blind constituents, as serving their needs will keep us on track. A strange angle possibly, but valuable. (I *try* to remember the ALT attributes on my IMG elements.) Murray __________________________________________________________________ Murray M. Altheim, Information Systems Analyst National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling, West Virginia email: murray.altheim@nttc.edu www: http://ogopogo.nttc.edu/people/maltheim/maltheim.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 5 18:58:29 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19175; Wed, 5 Jul 95 18:58:29 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA20965; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 21:55:32 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 21:54:32 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507060155.AA20965@www19> From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net> Message-Id: <199507060154.VAA03766@clark.net> Subject: Re: fwd:Fonts To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 21:54:32 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199507052038.QAA16016@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> from "Paul Prescod" at Jul 5, 95 04:38:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 848 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1040 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Paul Prescod once wrote... > > > > <EM> *might* work... what if I want all occurences of a certain word > > > to appear in small caps? No character-level tag I know of is a good > > > substitute for small caps. > > You do not need this. HTML is an SGML language. SGML supports entities. > Entities do what you ask. You just make a &prodname; entity and the > browser should do the rest. Your &prodname; entity can have all of the > formatting you need. I predict that when HTML 3 is more widely adopted and Netscape is a bad memory, <font> fans will start doing <H1>H<small>EY</small> L<small>OOK</small> W<small>HAT</small> I C<small>AN</small> D<small>O</small>!</H1> Sorry to be such a pessimist. I've been reading comp.infosystems.www.* lately. :( -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 5 19:27:51 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20006; Wed, 5 Jul 95 19:27:51 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA21446; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 22:26:35 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 22:25:56 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507060226.AA21446@www19> From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-Id: <199507060225.WAA18695@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: fwd:Fonts To: mikebat@clark.net (Mike Batchelor) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 22:25:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <199507060154.VAA03766@clark.net> from "Mike Batchelor" at Jul 5, 95 09:54:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1084 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1041 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > > Paul Prescod once wrote... > > > > > > <EM> *might* work... what if I want all occurences of a certain word > > > > to appear in small caps? No character-level tag I know of is a good > > > > substitute for small caps. > > > > You do not need this. HTML is an SGML language. SGML supports entities. > > Entities do what you ask. You just make a &prodname; entity and the > > browser should do the rest. Your &prodname; entity can have all of the > > formatting you need. > > I predict that when HTML 3 is more widely adopted and Netscape is a bad > memory, <font> fans will start doing <H1>H<small>EY</small> > L<small>OOK</small> W<small>HAT</small> I C<small>AN</small> > D<small>O</small>!</H1> > > Sorry to be such a pessimist. I've been reading comp.infosystems.www.* > lately. :( I agree. I must admit I'm disappointed with the existance of <small>, <big> et. al. I do think we need something for legal text, but it should not be <small>, it should be <legal>, or <note role="legal>. And unimportant text should be <note role="deemphasize"> Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 03:39:38 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02666; Thu, 6 Jul 95 03:39:38 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA28392; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 06:38:33 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:32:48 +0100 (BST) Resent-Message-Id: <9507061038.AA28392@www19> From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk> Message-Id: <2527.9507061032@afs.mcc.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Suppress scroll bars - an idea To: murray.altheim@nttc.edu (Murray Altheim) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:32:48 +0100 (BST) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <v02110104ac2079876dab@[192.188.119.193]> from "Murray Altheim" at Jul 5, 95 01:24:32 pm Organisation: Computer Graphics Unit, University of Manchester, UK Phone: +44 0161 275 6045 Fax: +44 0161 275 6040 Operating-System: some HP unix thingy X-Uri: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Content-Length: 2433 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1042 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Murray You have mixed up your attributions here. > >Mike Batchelor said: > > > >> Walter Ian Kaye once wrote... > >> > You could choose an arbitrary page size, but that would be making many > >> > assumptions. At least be sure no graphic is wider than 470 pixels, because > >> > that is the standard imaging area width for Netscape and Mosaic browsers > >> > when used on screens 640 pixels wide. Anyone with a 512-pixel wide screen > >> > or smaller would get the wrong size, although they're probably used to it > >> > already. ;) > > > >You should either apply your "no bigger than" argument rigorously - and I bet > >someone could find a platform somewhere with a narrower screen width than > >512 pixels - or apply your "probably used to it" argument to 640 pixels... Mike did not say that, I did. > I for one am VERY glad that > we have hard-of-sight and blind constituents, as serving their needs will > keep us on track. A strange angle possibly, but valuable. (I *try* to > remember the ALT attributes on my IMG elements.) Yes. I hope you did not assume from my comments that I hold a contrary position. I was just arguing against Walter Ian Kaye's 640 pixels hueristic, pointing out the problems with it. A tutorial I gave at Eurographics UK earlier this year addressed the problems of the print disabled. Have a look at: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/Docs/ActiveWeb/eg-uk-tut.book_9.html especially if you are unsure what to put in your ALT attribute. The answer is often nothing, ie ALT="" Disclaimer: the HTML in that document was automatically generated (by Webmaker). Yes, I know it is awful. -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North HPC Training & Education Centre | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. 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François Yergeau | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 08:08:45 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10367; Thu, 6 Jul 95 08:08:45 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02836; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:06:45 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 15:03:06 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <9507061506.AA02836@www19> From: dba@althingi.is Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 15:03:06 GMT Message-Id: <199507061503.PAA21192@freki.althingi.is> To: www-html@w3.org Subject: making old text publicly available on the web X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1183 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1043 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list There is lots of text around which could be made accessible on the web but nobody has the time to mark up. Frequently the only structure this text has is tabs and formfeeds. HTML should support formfeeds in <PLAINTEXT> so this little structure there is present in this text does not get lost on the web. The same applies to books which are scaned up, they have pages. I have the job of presenting official information to the public in stable text and in reports generated from databases. I have very basic needs and I think HTML should meet those needs without style sheets. There are things that do not belong on the same page. I need HTML to say something about pageing which I can expect the general browser that the public will be using to support. I dont need a special tag if the standard says that browsers should have as an option in printing a skipp to a new page on <DIV> or on <DIV CLASS=something> or something of that kind. Is that cluttering up the standard? -- Thorvaldur Gunnlaugsson \ The Parliament of Iceland thg@althingi.is \ comp. departm. Vonarstr 8 voice:354-5630655 fax:5630670 \ 150 REYKJAVIK From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 08:44:18 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11903; Thu, 6 Jul 95 08:44:18 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA04401; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:43:15 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:47:13 -0500 Resent-Message-Id: <9507061543.AA04401@www19> X-Sender: young@aleta.cs.purdue.edu Message-Id: <v01510107ac21b3a68cce@[128.10.2.237]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:47:13 -0500 To: dba@althingi.is From: young@cs.purdue.edu (Michal Young) Subject: Re: making old text publicly available on the web Cc: www-html@w3.org Content-Length: 1836 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1045 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list At 10:03 AM 7/6/95, dba@althingi.is wrote: >There is lots of text around which could be made accessible >on the web but nobody has the time to mark up. There are two fairly easy ways to handle this: 1) Provide filters that will do an automatic, half-hearted job of markup. Simple things like converting tabs (converting them into html3 tabs when those are supported, converting them into strings of blanks for now) is simple, and in fact the unix utility "expand" is used routinely for that. Form feeds could be filtered out, changed to line breaks, or translated to <hr>. With only a bit more work, form feeds could be used to divide a plain-text document into muliple linked html documents, which is the closest www equivalent to page breaks in scanned documents. 2) If even that is too much work, the documents can be served up by gopher rather than http. This trivially preserves the structure that is present. >I have the job of presenting official information to the public >in stable text and in reports generated from databases. Then presumably you have the skill to write the simple scripts suggested in item (1) above. >I have very basic needs and I think HTML should meet those needs >without style sheets. There are things that do not belong on the same >page. I need HTML to say something about pageing which I can expect >the general browser that the public will be using to support. As mentioned above, the closest equivalent is to produce one html file for each page. (That's why they are often called "web pages.") >I dont need a special tag if the standard says that browsers should >have as an option in printing a skipp to a new page on <DIV> >or on <DIV CLASS=something> or something of that kind. >Is that cluttering up the standard? Yes, "cluttering up the standard" is a good description. --Michal From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 08:57:00 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12483; Thu, 6 Jul 95 08:57:00 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA04881; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:53:47 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 11:52:12 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507061553.AA04881@www19> Message-Id: <199507061552.LAA17990@beach.w3.org> To: dba@althingi.is Cc: www-html@w3.org Subject: Re: making old text publicly available on the web In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jul 1995 15:03:06 GMT." <199507061503.PAA21192@freki.althingi.is> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 11:52:12 -0400 From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org> Content-Length: 2502 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1046 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list In message <199507061503.PAA21192@freki.althingi.is>, dba@althingi.is writes: >There is lots of text around which could be made accessible >on the web but nobody has the time to mark up. >Frequently the only structure this text has is tabs and >formfeeds. Are you aware that you may make data avialable in other formats besides HTML? Plain text files have always been supported by web browsers. I don't believe formfeed characters are consistently supported (though I haven't done any testing on this recently). I'm not sure what spec governs the text/plain media type -- RFC1521 probably -- but I doubt it mandates support for formfeeds. > HTML should support formfeeds in <PLAINTEXT> >so this little structure there is present in this text >does not get lost on the web. Hmmm... odd phrasing: "HTML should support." Do you mean that web browsers should support formfeeds in HTML? >The same applies to books which are scaned up, they have pages. I believe that HTML elements represent common communications idioms. You may have a point that in fact a "page" is such an idiom, and hence may have a place in HTML. It's the old "chunky" vs. "creamy" hypertext debate: in HyperCard, Toolbook, and the like, the information space is built from "cards" or "pages." HTML is essentially creamy, though the chunky crowd seems to lobby for support on occasion. (Dave Hollander from H.P. argues the case occasionally, bringing a lot of experience from his work on SDL.) >I have the job of presenting official information to the public >in stable text and in reports generated from databases. >I have very basic needs and I think HTML should meet those needs >without style sheets. Hmm... I'd agree that your needs should be met by web technology. Whether we need another HTML tag is debateable at best. Have you considered putting each page in a separate HTML document? >I dont need a special tag if the standard says that browsers should >have as an option in printing a skipp to a new page on <DIV> >or on <DIV CLASS=something> or something of that kind. >Is that cluttering up the standard? Nope. Actually, that's a pretty good idea. <DIV class=page> is a pretty reasonable way to mark up the information you seem to have. Now... if you could just lobby the browser implementors to support the idiom... Daniel W. Connolly "We believe in the interconnectedness of all things" Research Technical Staff, MIT/W3C <connolly@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/People/Connolly From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 09:02:05 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12745; Thu, 6 Jul 95 09:02:05 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA04967; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:56:08 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 95 08:42:22 PDT Resent-Message-Id: <9507061556.AA04967@www19> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 95 08:42:22 PDT From: pramsey@postmodern.com (Paul Ramsey) Message-Id: <9507061542.AA08829@postmodern.com> To: www-html@w3.org, dba@althingi.is Subject: Re: making old text publicly available on the web X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 785 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1047 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list If you're not going to mark these documents up why not just leave them as raw documents and make the browsers better at displaying raw text documents. I can even imagine browsers that were capable of enhancing certain types of text documents (C source code for instance) without any markup. People have been trying to figure out how to display all sorts of things ever since we started using CRTs. We should probably not throw out everything we've learned just because we have started using hypertext. By the way, until we modify the existing browsers it would be simple enough to write a filter which converted text documents with form feeds in it into separate html documents with "next page"/"previous page" buttons at the bottom. It could also include page numbers. Paul Ramsey From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 14:02:32 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25606; Thu, 6 Jul 95 14:02:32 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA03167; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:15:47 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 09:17:33 -0600 Resent-Message-Id: <9507061515.AA03167@www19> Message-Id: <199507061517.JAA03305@huey.nmt.edu> From: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 09:17:33 -0600 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: fwd:Fonts Content-Length: 510 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1044 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Perhaps a better name than TEXT (too generic) or C (too cryptic) for character-level markup would be STR or STRING, indicating that the markup applies to a string of character entities. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Benjamin C. W. Sittler -- Email: bsittler@nmt.edu -- Snail: P.O. Box 153 Web: http://nmt.edu/~bsittler/ bcws@arc.unm.edu Socorro, NM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 14:29:05 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26604; Thu, 6 Jul 95 14:29:05 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA13121; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 17:27:53 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 17:26:18 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507062127.AA13121@www19> X-Sender: murray@filbx2.nttc.edu Message-Id: <v02110100ac21f9739a27@[192.188.119.193]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Eudora-Demo: NOT FOR RESALE - 90 DAY DEMONSTRATION COPY Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 17:26:18 -0400 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: murray.altheim@nttc.edu (Murray Altheim) Subject: Re: making old text publicly available on the web Cc: dba@althingi.is Content-Length: 3186 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1051 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Thorvaldur Gunnlaugsson (thg@althingi.is) writes: >There is lots of text around which could be made accessible >on the web but nobody has the time to mark up. >Frequently the only structure this text has is tabs and >formfeeds. HTML should support formfeeds in <PLAINTEXT> >so this little structure there is present in this text >does not get lost on the web. >The same applies to books which are scaned up, they have pages. Unfortunately, PLAINTEXT is deprecated in HTML 2.0 and beyond, so you would be forced to put the entire document into a number of PRE elements. As PRE differs from PLAINTEXT in that phrase markup is not ignored, the content would have to be translated into HTML compatible format (disallowed characters translated to entities, eg. <,>, etc.). It seems to me that you are attempting to take a paged format and make it fit into a pageless metaphor. As has been discussed, there are very real problems with taking a fixed page size (US Letter, US Legal, A4, etc.) and fitting it to a 512 x 342 window, or onto a 24 row 40 character braille output device. I don't know of any universal resolution to these problems, philosophically or technically, other than translation into a pageless metaphor such as HTML. >[...]I need HTML to say something about pageing which I can expect >the general browser that the public will be using to support. >I dont need a special tag if the standard says that browsers should >have as an option in printing a skipp to a new page on <DIV> >or on <DIV CLASS=something> or something of that kind. I would imagine your original documents are truly bound by by topic or section, not by page. The problems I've seen in marking up existing documents that are strictly paged stem from a) table of contents or internal references to page numbers; b) pagination around graphics; and c) footnote/endnote references. I can see already the beginnings of a flood of responses to your original post, so I'll cut this one off. I would (as other have and will) recommend posting alternate text (with formfeeds), postscript or acrobat versions, for those who would like to print/view the document in its original format. Last week I added a feature to my HTML editor that breaks imports on either formfeeds or custom characters, for the same reasons as you state. What I found was that I had to go in with a text editor and move some of the formfeeds to the beginnings of sections, as I didn't want a page metaphor in many cases -- just too cumbersome. >Is that cluttering up the standard? Not cluttering really. You're proposing a concept that is part of a page description language, which HTML is not. Section 1 of the HTML 2.0 DTD describes the scope of HTML, which states that HTML documents are to be portable from one platform to another. Capturing assumptions of display width, height, font size, etc. are not part of the spec. Murray __________________________________________________________________ Murray M. Altheim, Information Systems Analyst National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling, West Virginia email: murray.altheim@nttc.edu www: http://ogopogo.nttc.edu/people/maltheim/maltheim.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 15:24:30 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28474; Thu, 6 Jul 95 15:24:30 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA06076; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 12:19:45 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:22:28 -0600 Resent-Message-Id: <9507061619.AA06076@www19> Message-Id: <199507061622.KAA03501@huey.nmt.edu> From: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:22:28 -0600 In-Reply-To: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net> "Linking to style sheets (was Re: fwd:Fonts)" (Jul 6, 12:10pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net> Subject: Re: Linking to style sheets (was Re: fwd:Fonts) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Content-Length: 408 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1049 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list The current stylesheet notation uses element.class rather than element[CLASS=class] -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Benjamin C. W. Sittler -- Email: bsittler@nmt.edu -- Snail: P.O. Box 153 Web: http://nmt.edu/~bsittler/ bcws@arc.unm.edu Socorro, NM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 15:42:15 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29048; Thu, 6 Jul 95 15:42:15 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA06073; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 12:19:39 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 12:12:18 -0500 (EST) Resent-Message-Id: <9507061619.AA06073@www19> Mr-Received: by mta SOCCER; Relayed; Thu, 06 Jul 1995 12:15:12 -0500 Mr-Received: by mta GOSIP; Relayed; Thu, 06 Jul 1995 12:17:15 -0500 Alternate-Recipient: prohibited Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 12:12:18 -0500 (EST) From: David Scott 614/466-0705 <ACQ_SCOTT@ohio.gov> Subject: Re: making old text publicly available on the web In-Reply-To: <v01510107ac21b3a68cce@[128.10.2.237]> To: www-html-request <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Cc: dba <dba@althingi.is>, www-html <www-html@w3.org> Message-Id: <A118ZVVLHIIWE*/R=ODNVMS/R=A1/U=ACQ_SCOTT/@MHS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 12:15:00 -0500 (EST) Importance: normal Priority: normal Ua-Content-Id: A118ZVVLHIIWE X400-Mts-Identifier: [;21512160705991/1309149@ODNVMS] A1-Type: MAIL Hop-Count: 2 Content-Length: 482 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1048 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >There are two fairly easy ways to handle this: ....<snip>....... >2) If even that is too much work, the documents can be served up by gopher >rather than http. This trivially preserves the structure that is present. You can avoid html TOTALLY by writing your document to the Acrobat Writer driver and create a PDF file. You still can make the document available on whatever server you like. --Dave acq_scott@ohio.gov dscott@freenet.columbus.oh.us / / / / / / / From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 16:03:39 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29645; Thu, 6 Jul 95 16:03:39 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA06667; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 12:30:26 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 20:27:05 +0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507061630.AA06667@www19> To: Michal Young <young@cs.purdue.edu> Cc: dba@althingi.is, www-html@w3.org References: <v01510107ac21b3a68cce@[128.10.2.237]> In-Reply-To: <v01510107ac21b3a68cce@[128.10.2.237]>; from Michal Young at Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:47:13 -0500 Message-Id: <BAPx0_lOZA@dux.ru> Organization: DUX From: "Dmitry Mishin" <ptitz@dux.ru> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 20:27:05 +0400 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.31 FreeBSD] Subject: Re: making old text publicly available on the web Lines: 25 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1062 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1050 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list In message <v01510107ac21b3a68cce@[128.10.2.237]> Michal Young writes: >At 10:03 AM 7/6/95, dba@althingi.is wrote: >>I have very basic needs and I think HTML should meet those needs >>without style sheets. There are things that do not belong on the same >>page. I need HTML to say something about pageing which I can expect >>the general browser that the public will be using to support. >As mentioned above, the closest equivalent is to produce one html file for >each page. (That's why they are often called "web pages.") This is an easy task for documents with plain structure, and more complex for converting hierarhical one. Content tables for each level can't close a problem. >>I dont need a special tag if the standard says that browsers should >>have as an option in printing a skipp to a new page on <DIV> >>or on <DIV CLASS=something> or something of that kind. >>Is that cluttering up the standard? <DIV CLASS=someting ID=partid> - would be ideal, because solve problem with crossreferences and scripts, realizing such paging and hrefs. D. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 16:13:44 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29929; Thu, 6 Jul 95 16:13:44 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA14771; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 19:12:02 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 17:10:45 -0600 Resent-Message-Id: <9507062312.AA14771@www19> Message-Id: <199507062310.RAA21208@flesh.nmt.edu> From: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 17:10:45 -0600 In-Reply-To: "Dmitry Mishin" <ptitz@dux.ru> "Re: making old text publicly available on the web" (Jul 6, 8:27pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: "Dmitry Mishin" <ptitz@dux.ru> Subject: Re: making old text publicly available on the web Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Content-Length: 643 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1052 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list If page numbers are a problem, why not just use <SPOT ID=#>, where # is the page number? Then one could, with minimal source modification, make indices point to any page of the original document. True breaks in semantic flow (i.e. chapters) would probably be better rendered as horizontal rules or seperate documents. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Benjamin C. W. Sittler -- Email: bsittler@nmt.edu -- Snail: P.O. Box 153 Web: http://nmt.edu/~bsittler/ bcws@arc.unm.edu Socorro, NM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 20:36:39 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06275; Thu, 6 Jul 95 20:36:39 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA20583; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 23:35:25 -0400 Resent-Date: Sat, 06 Jul 85 23:40:01 0000 Resent-Message-Id: <9507070335.AA20583@www19> Message-Id: <199507070334.XAA06108@panix4.panix.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jul 85 23:40:01 0000 From: Julian Bleecker <mackdad@w3.org> X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1b3 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: (no subject) X-Url: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/People/Connolly/ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Length: 37 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1053 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list SUBSCRIBE www-html Julian Bleecker From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 20:44:50 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06456; Thu, 6 Jul 95 20:44:50 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA20701; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 23:42:48 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 21:41:25 -0600 Resent-Message-Id: <9507070342.AA20701@www19> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 21:41:25 -0600 Message-Id: <199507070341.VAA07690@prism.nmt.edu> X-Sender: bsittler@nmt.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Julian Bleecker <mackdad@w3.org> From: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler) Subject: Re: (no subject) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Content-Length: 74 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1054 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >SUBSCRIBE www-html Julian Bleecker That should be in the Subject: line. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 22:17:56 1995 Return-Path: <www-html-request@www10.w3.org> Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07934; Thu, 6 Jul 95 22:17:56 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA21886; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 01:15:00 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 23:13:09 -0600 Resent-Message-Id: <9507070515.AA21886@www19> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 23:13:09 -0600 Message-Id: <199507070513.XAA11170@prism.nmt.edu> X-Sender: bsittler@nmt.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler) Subject: Re: fwd:Fonts Cc: www-style@www10.w3.org Content-Length: 1239 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: <www-html@mail.w3.org> archive/latest/1055 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >To: "Terry Allen" <terry@ora.com> >From: bsittler@nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler) >Subject: Re: fwd:Fonts > >>FWIW, in the Docbook DTD we're going to add a tag for much the same >>purpose, called PHRASE. >> >>I may have missed it, but has anyone proposed that C/ELEMENT/FONT/STRING >>should be allowed to contain other inline markup? >> >>Regards, >> >>-- >>Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. > (sig deleted) >> > >My instinct is to have the generic character-level element inherit the surrounding content model. > >While we're on the subject, I'd like to propose a name for the element which seems far more semantically pleasing than any of those mentioned so far... what about <MARK>? After all, aren't we marking the affected text (in invisible ink, by default)? > >i.e., ><HTML><HEAD> ><TITLE>ElectroPets: Fall 1995/Spring 1996 Catalog > > >... The Wonder Dog keeps robbers on the run. > >The source doc fr the above snippet might lend itself quite easily to automatic indexing. > >[I would endorse , except that "phraseology" has inapplicable connotations.] (dumb joke deleted...) From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 6 23:06:48 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08706; Thu, 6 Jul 95 23:06:48 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA22663; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 02:04:35 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 23:00:19 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507070604.AA22663@www19> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 23:00:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Alexei Kosut To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Tables and Charts Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 4113 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1056 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Hello: I was recently watching a computer class at the school I work in as a sysadmin play with Microsoft Excel, and I realized something is missing from the TABLE spec, as drafted in the HTML 3.0 draft and/or the Netscape, NCSA Mosaic and other implementations: charts and graphs. Currently the only way to create such charts (and you see them realtively often) is to make them as pictures, and use the IMG tag to display them. Here's a better idea I've been thinking about: We currently have the TABLE tag and its enclosed elements, which allow us to create a table of data, something like this (for example): ______|_ A _|_ B _|_ C _| Now, we all know how to create this in HTML One | 123 | 456 | 789 | using TABLE. Ok. Done. I have a table of Two | 911 | 666 | 555 | numeric data, on my page, with each column Three | 987 | 654 | 321 | and row labled. Now, in Excel (getting back to my point), I could select this, hit graph, and it would come back with a beautifully rendered graph, something like this: __________________________ Of course, it would look better, and I could | | render it in any sort of style I choosed, | X=One YZ | including 3D and whatnot. Now, I'm sure that | Y=Two YZ YZ X | browser authors could figure out what Micro- | Z=Three YZ XYZ XY | soft has figured out, and give us a graph | YZ XYZ XYZ | from a table, too. So I have an idea I'd | XYZ XYZ XYZ | like to hear some comments on: | A B C | |________________________| We take the basic TABLE spec, as is, and add an attribute to the main TABLE tag, the CHART element. If present, it would define a type of chart, and the browser would take the following table data and attempt to convert it into a graph. For example, to create the above, I might use . We could define a couple basics, say bar, line, pie and chart. Everything else (including 2D vs. 3D) could be done via style sheets. Well, actually, charts could be done via style sheets entirely too, but I think that HTML needs to stand on its own without them, and this would be a good feature to add directly to the spec. Of course, it'd be a somewhat optional feature of HTML 3.0 (use that magic 'should' word when discussing implemntation), sorta like displaying the image in the SRC attribute of IMG or (the proposed) FIG. If the client was unable to display a graph (either it didn't support it - try doing this reliably on a vt100 - or the data was too complex or non-numerical), it would simply display the table, as written. All the TABLE tags would be supported (BORDER, ALIGN, CLASS, ID, all that other stuff that no browser supports currently), as with TABLE's content tags. And, although the spec (IMO) shouldn't say anything about how the table is to be formatted, it should reccomend something like the following:
... ...
Table title
First data point name Second data point name ...
First data set name Data for first data point, first data set Data for second data point, first data set ...
Second data set name Data for first data point, second data set
And so forth. Obviously, that's not perfect (and, if you've kept track, there's no way - at least that I can see - to make a pie chart with more than one data set. But then, HTML 3.0 tables also let you, using the COLSPAN and ROWSPAN attributes, let you overlap tags, so I think it'll work.) Comments? --/ Alexei Kosut /--------/ Lefler on IRC ----------------------------/ The viewpoints expressed above are entirely false, and in no way represent Alexei Kosut nor any other person or entity. /-------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jul 7 01:43:19 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11072; Fri, 7 Jul 95 01:43:19 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA25024; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 04:41:21 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 09:39:53 BST Resent-Message-Id: <9507070841.AA25024@www19> From: "Chris Tilbury" Organization: Estates, University of Warwick, UK To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 09:39:53 BST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Tables and Charts X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Chris Tilbury" Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Message-Id: <3DA4F754E9@forest.estate.warwick.ac.uk> Content-Length: 3073 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1057 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On 6 Jul 95 at 23:00, Alexei Kosut wrote: > We currently have the TABLE tag and its enclosed elements, which > allow us to create a table of data, something like this (for > example): [snip] > We take the basic TABLE spec, as is, and add an attribute to the > main TABLE tag, the CHART element. If present, it would define a > type of chart, and the browser would take the following table data > and attempt to convert it into a graph. For example, to create the > above, I might use . We could define a > couple basics, say bar,line, pie and chart. Everything else > (including 2D vs. 3D) could bedone via style sheets. Well, actually, > charts could be done viastyle sheets entirely too, but I think that > HTML needs to stand onits own without them, and this would be a good > feature to add directly to the spec. [snip] Here's my two-penneth contribution towards this one :-) In the HTML document
Descriptive text about what this data represents
Object Name Width (meters) Height (meters) Breadth (meters)
Blue Cube 10 7 9
Black Cube 5 9 16
Mauve Cube 9 18 23
Then, in your style sheet ... Table.ChartFormat1 : renderstyle.type = 2dbar Table.ChartFormat1 : data.header = DataHead Table.ChartFormat1 : data.sets = Set1, Set2, Set3 The rest can be inferred by the location of the TH header elements within each Row. This is slightly basic; it could probably be extended to include styles for functions such as the visual "angle" or tilt of a 3d chart, exploding portions of a pie chart, i.e Table.ChartFormat : renderstyle.type = 3dpie Table.ChartFormat : renderstyle.angle = 30 Table.ChartFormat : renderstyle.thickness = 10 Table.ChartFormat : data.header = dataHeaderClass Table.ChartFormat : data.sets = Set1 TD.ExplodeThisEntry : datasetstyle.type = exploded TD.ExplodeThisEntry : datasetstyle.size = 10 Why do I think this should be entirely left up to the Style Sheet mechanisms, with no attributes added to the table element? What the table element represents, in this case, is a collection of data. At present, this data is rendered (or presented) in the form of a table, constructed using Rows, and Cells within those Rows, using the , table data, element or , table header, element. The precise rendering of that data is really not a content issue, which the HTML markup describes, but a presentation issue, which should be managed not in the markup, but in style sheets. > Comments? Anyone else have any? Regards, Chris -- Chris Tilbury, Estates Office, University of Warwick, UK, CV4 7AL Tel: +44 1203 523523 x2665 Fax: +44 1203 524444 MIME mail welcomed mailto:Chris.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jul 7 02:08:43 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11502; Fri, 7 Jul 95 02:08:43 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA25469; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 05:07:24 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 11:03:45 +0200 (MET DST) Resent-Message-Id: <9507070907.AA25469@www19> Message-Id: <9507070903.AA07942@database> Subject: HTML 3.0 draft available in PostScript? To: www-html@w3.org (WWW-html mailing list) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 11:03:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Alessio Bragadini Organization: Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita` di Pisa, Italia X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 550 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1058 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Sorry, it seemed to me that an answer about the availability of a PostScript or other printable version of the current HTML 3.0 draft has already been placed on the list, but I can't find it in my files or in the hypertext archive. So I'm asking it again... :-) Where can I find a printable version of the HTML 3.0 draft? Thanks in advance -- Alessio F. Bragadini mailto:alessio@unipi.it Serra Project WWW Team http://www.di.unipi.it/~abragad University of Pisa +39 (0)50 576425 "...just sittin' around waitin' for my life to begin" From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jul 7 05:04:06 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14207; Fri, 7 Jul 95 05:04:06 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA28227; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 08:01:36 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 07:59:56 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507071201.AA28227@www19> From: Paul Prescod Message-Id: <199507071159.HAA23727@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: Tables and Charts To: C.J.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk (Chris Tilbury) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 07:59:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <3DA4F754E9@forest.estate.warwick.ac.uk> from "Chris Tilbury" at Jul 7, 95 09:39:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 961 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1059 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > The precise > rendering of that data is really not a content issue, which the HTML > markup describes, but a presentation issue, which should be managed > not in the markup, but in style sheets. I like your way of looking at it. Here's another way: techncially speaking HTML already supports charts. The IMG and FIG attributes could easily point to an Excel or Harvard Graphics chart file. The real problem is not in HTML, it is in the non-existance of a widely used chart data format. The best place to attack the problem, then, is to standardized a separate chart data type independant of the HTML standard and get browser vendors to support it. While you are at it you might want to standardize a vector drawing format. cil.org is struggling with the same questions of format standardization. w3.org might want to work with them to address these issues. Or the cil.org formats might become defacto cross-platform standards. Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jul 7 05:51:39 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15169; Fri, 7 Jul 95 05:51:39 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA28985; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 08:48:12 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 13:46:46 +0100 (BST) Resent-Message-Id: <9507071248.AA28985@www19> From: lilley Message-Id: <10955.9507071246@afs.mcc.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Tables and Charts To: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 13:46:46 +0100 (BST) Cc: C.J.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk, www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <199507071159.HAA23727@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> from "Paul Prescod" at Jul 7, 95 07:59:56 am Organisation: Computer Graphics Unit, University of Manchester, UK Phone: +44 0161 275 6045 Fax: +44 0161 275 6040 Operating-System: some HP unix thingy X-Uri: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1119 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1060 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Paul Prescod said: > The real problem > is not in HTML, it is in the non-existance of a widely used chart > data format. Actually there is an existing Internet Media Type (MIME type) called text/tab-separated-values which can have any suitable graphing program as a viewer. I use xmgr > While you are at it you might want to standardize a vector drawing format. CGM (ISO/IEC 8632: 1992) is currently being registered as an Internet Media Type. -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North HPC Training & Education Centre | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jul 7 06:40:58 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19 (www19.w3.org) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16424; Fri, 7 Jul 95 06:40:58 PDT Received: by www19 (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA00993; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 09:39:26 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 14:36:24 BST Resent-Message-Id: <9507071339.AA00993@www19> From: "Chris Tilbury" Organization: Estates, University of Warwick, UK To: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod), lilley Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 14:36:24 BST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Tables and Charts Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Message-Id: <429606117D@forest.estate.warwick.ac.uk> Content-Length: 3954 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1061 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On 7 Jul 95 at 13:46, lilley wrote: > Paul Prescod said: > > The real problem is not in HTML, it is in the non-existance of a > > widely used chart data format. I think Paul really meant "non-proprietary widely used" :-) > Actually there is an existing Internet Media Type (MIME type) called > > text/tab-separated-values > > which can have any suitable graphing program as a viewer. I use xmgr Which, as lilley points out, there is. Whilst bringing in external standards is one possibility, perhaps we need to hark back to one of the "first principles" of HTML, that being that it is intended to be a simple markup language. We already have an (proposed) element in which is ideally suited to storing numeric /data/ - a markup version of text/tab-separated-values, if you like - and along with the
and elements and the CLASS attribute (as well as the AXIS and AXES attributes in more complex cases) we can sufficiently identify the structure of that data such that it can be interpreted by a browser. I would personally like to avoid a new element, or some application of the container, for a number of reasons. Chief amongst these are (i) {on } If we can manage it successfully with what is currently available, why add another unnecessary element? The HTML 3 Draft already has many, many tags - of which the content value of some is slightly dubious (, , , ). We should, ideally, be looking to depreciate some (all?) of these, not add new and unnecessary ones. {on } Likewise, further complicating the HTML standard by using a separate external format for storing numeric data, just because the author has hinted, via the stylesheet, that he/she would /like/ the data to be rendered as a 3d pie chart titled at 45 degrees with the second and fifth segments exploded by 10% of the diameter of the pie, is probably not a good idea. If nothing else, it instantly excludes the person /viewing/ the document from being able to take their favourite browser, point it at a page created by someone with enough knowledge to create tables (but not enough knowledge to use the other format) and choosing a browser option which allows /them/ to render the data in a chart after a little bit of direction on the precise structure of the data in the table. (ii) platform independence. I prefer the original posters suggestion of using the tag, if for no other reason than if a platform is unable to have an external chart viewer it can merely ignore the styles applied to that TABLE element and render in a tabular text format, or read it aloud in the case of a visually impaired or blind user. Yes, we could come up with a standard which could be interpreted in different fashions by a range of viewers, or incorporate an existing standard into HTML/Web Browsers), but why do this (see [i] above) if what we have already is sufficient - isn't it this which HTML is supposed to do be so good at? (iii) Using the

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Omniweb manages to do this collapse/expand stuff without even the
markup. But it's outline view only allows one line per item -- no multi-line paragraphs or anything like that. Dan From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 13 09:04:38 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11906; Thu, 13 Jul 95 09:04:38 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA20404; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 12:01:59 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 08:53:24 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507131601.AA20404@www19.w3.org> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 08:53:24 -0700 Message-Id: <199507131553.AA15666@cabal.alki.com> X-Sender: carolynp@mail.alki.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: carolynp@alki.com (Carolyn Pearson) Subject: Re: keyword tag... Content-Length: 1427 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1134 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >>There's been a discussion on html-wg on keyword tags (for building >>indices or keyword-to-URL references). Does anybody know what the >>final word is? > >Why not have a DDC or UDC (dewey or universal decimal classification) tag, >so that authors can self-classify documents - keywords are only a half-way >house to sorting out indexing/classification. As someone who spent two years getting a master's in Library Science, I can tell you that these sort of classification numbers are very complicated. The result of such a tag would likely be tons of things lumped into very general categories, because few people will want to take a 3-month cataloging class to learn how to assign the numbers that go after the decimal point [in the Dewey system]. Classification numbers are useful in libraries because you are mostly dealing with physical items that have to be put at one particular place on a shelf. Since electronic documents can be retrieved from multiple points, it makes more sense -- and is much easier for the person searching for a document -- to provide a keyword-type system that allows multiple, easy-for-humans-to-understand access points. (Libraries do this also, by using subject headings to provide multiple access points in their catalogs.) _________________________________ Carolyn Pearson, Managing Editor Alki Software Corporation email: carolynp@alki.com phone: (206) 286-2600 fax: (206) 286-2785 From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 13 09:49:04 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14125; Thu, 13 Jul 95 09:49:04 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA22370; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 12:43:47 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 17:41:20 BST Resent-Message-Id: <9507131643.AA22370@www19.w3.org> From: "Chris Tilbury" Organization: Estates, University of Warwick, UK To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 17:41:20 BST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Proposal for an Outlining Markup Scheme For HTML 3.0 X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Chris Tilbury" Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Message-Id: Content-Length: 8832 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1138 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I wrote: > "I think I'd be inclined to agree with Brian here. We already have a > mechanism for creating lists, ordered or otherwise, and for creating > entries within these lists, and encapsulating further lists within > these entries. {snip snip} We already have three list metaphor > elements within the DTD,
    ,
      , and
      . Another would be > unnecessary, IMHO." In response, on the 13 Jul 95 at 10:34, KRetting@ctt.bellcore.com wrote: > We disagree. Sure there are already several metaphors (these > metaphors are only a subset of the possibilities) being used by HTML > 3.0, but one of the goals of HTML is to provide the greatest > capability with the least codes. We feel that our proposal provides > many new functions with a limited set of additional codes. These > functions include outlining a book, heirarchical representations of > information spaces, non-hierarchical representations of information > spaces, and a plethora of capabilities that centers around the > ability to dynamically reveal text at the will of the user. All > while keeping network reconnects and transactions to a minimum. > However, we are certainly interested in seeing a proposal which > could make use of existing tags, i.e. OL, and "wrap" them in some > kind of outline mark-up so as to produce the effect we desire. We > tried this and failed. [See we aren't as smart as we think! :-)] Before we embark any further, I'd like us all to consider these issues, which I feel are a rather important when discussing any new proposals. The proposal as set out introduces the following new elements, Which would contain the outlined list. Which would contain each outline "header" Which would contain the outline "text" Let's look at how these compare with elements already present in the HTML 3 draft[1]. Obviously enough, we have no element. The closest we can come to is one of
        ,
          , or
          both of which generate lists of one form or another, and which all have the capability to be nested within each other (although how
          should behave when nested is rather unclear, since the "concept" of a definition does seem to rule out having further definitions within it.) The next comparison comes between , the "List Header", and "OH", the "Outline Header". There is, however, an important different here. Whilst is designed to occur once within a list, like a caption, in the proposal made here, can be expected to appear multiple times. In fact, bears a far greater similarity to
        • than it does to . [Incidently, does anyone know why we've got to provide a caption in a list, and
to provide a caption on everything else? Yes, I know is supposed to put the header at the top of the list, but isn't this just a presentation issue?] What we don't appear to have is an equivalent to the item, except for
in a definition list - since the exact behaviour of a cascaded
is rather undefined (do not the natures and semantics, if not syntax, of a definition list item rule out further definition lists within itself?), even this is a rather tenuous comparison. The first important point I feel should be mentioned is that some of these terms play quite distinct roles, but seem very similar. More than anything else, HTML should be simple and easy to use. I can see a certain degree of confusion arising between, and , the former representing a header, the latter representing something more like an item
  • ; as well as between , which represents descriptive text for it's preceeding header, and
    in a Definition list, which more resembles (or
  • ). I would next like us to consider how legacy /browsers/ could handle these types of lists. Much is often said of attempting to ensure that browsers can handle legacy /documents/, but (worringly?) little thought sometimes appears to be given to how older browsers will handle modern documents. Let us assume, for now, that we proceed with the element and associated components. Take an older browser, and what you'll have displayed would probably be a mess, and depending on the complexity of the outline, it could be a very large and confusing mess. One of the major advantages of attempting to non-destructively modify an existing element, or group of elements, would be that legacy browsers would display the information in a "basic" format, whilst the newer browsers would display it more fully. The list elements are a good example of how may be able to manage this. If we are careful, we could develop a method of producing outlines that would work on both browsers capable of producing the collapsable/expandable view, as well as on older browsers, which would just render the outline in it's "most expanded" format. So, how can we achieve this? Well, how about something like this.
    1. This is the top outline level

      This is the text below the header. In an Ordered or Unordered Outlined list this would not be displayed until the header was expanded. The enclosing of this text in the <P> element would ensure that the text would hopefully be displayed beneath the header on older, legacy browsers

      • This is the next outline level

        This is the text describing it; again, note that since the content.model of the <LI> element is flow and flow includes lists, one can include multiple levels of outline without extra tags being required.

    Which could display as [-] 1. This is the top outline level This is the text below the header. In an Ordered or Unordered list this would not be displayed until the header was expanded. The enclosing of this text in the

    element would ensure that the text would hopefully be displayed beneath the header on older, legacy browsers. [+] * This is the next outline level on an "intelligent" browser, as 1. This is the top outline level This is the text below the header. In an Ordered or Unordered list this would not be displayed until the header was expanded. The enclosing of this text in the

    element would ensure that the text would hopefully be displayed beneath the header on older, legacy browsers. * This is the next outline level This is the text describing it; again, note that since the content.model, of the

  • element is flow and flow includes lists, one can include multiple levels of outline without extra tags being required. on a less intelligent one. Compared with the proposed scheme, this requires 1 additional element, , for Item Header: IH (Item Header) Permitted Context: Immediately following LI Content Model: %text A single modification to the LI specification[2], which should not affect the rendering of existing lists in any way whatsoever: LI (List Item) Permitted Context: UL or OL Content Model: Optional Item Header (IH), followed by %flow And the addition of a single attribute to the OL[3] & UL[4] specifications OUTLINED The presence of this attribute indicates to the user agent that this is an "outline" list. Outline lists should be rendered as an expandable/collapsable list, with the initial view of each
  • being simply the Item Header (IH) if present; otherwise, the specific item should be non-expandable. User Agents should provide an appropriate mechanism for expanding or contracting each LI to display it's full content - in the case of visual browsers, this could be by clicking on the numbering or dingbat identifying the list item (which can be specified in
  • using the SRC or DINGBBAT attributes). Personally, this is the absolute limit which I would feel could be encompassed within the markup without encroaching on completely presentational issues (which I think all of this is, anyhow). Anything further, including indicating which levels should be expanded initially, and which shouldn't, should live in stylesheets. References: [1] [2] [3] [4] Regards, Chris -- Chris Tilbury, Estates Office, University of Warwick, UK, CV4 7AL Tel: +44 1203 523523 x2665 Fax: +44 1203 524444 MIME mail welcomed mailto:Chris.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 13 10:18:42 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15522; Thu, 13 Jul 95 10:18:42 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA22965; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 13:15:38 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 10:13:14 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507131715.AA22965@www19.w3.org> From: "Terry Allen" Message-Id: <9507131013.ZM7063@dmg.west.ora.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 10:13:14 -0700 In-Reply-To: "Daniel W. Connolly" "Re: implies

    ?" (Jul 13, 12:25pm) References: <199507131625.MAA07293@beach.w3.org> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.1 10apr95) To: "Daniel W. Connolly" , Ka-Ping Yee , www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: implies

    ? Cc: Mike Meyer Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 1713 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1139 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Dan: | I hate speaking for Dave, but he's no where near caught up with | his mail... | | During the white-board discussion that Dave and I had, we discussed | this sort of thing, including the way FrameMaker allows you to | align figures all sorts of fancy ways with respect to the paragraph | in which they're anchored. | | We considered the possibility of expressing the above situation as: | |

    The bond angle between the two oxygen-hydrogen | bonds in water is slightly larger than that | between two carbon-hydrogen bonds in methane | (see figure 1). This | is due to the two extra pairs of free electrons around the | oxygen atom, which take up more space than the bound | pairs.

    | | | figure 1 shows models of CO2 and H2O molecules | | | This way, the content models aren't changed: is still a | peer of

    . But the element allows the author to suggest | where the figure should be anchored in the paragraph. | | Do you think that would work? Looks good to me, although I'd put that SPOT after the period. What might be tricky is specifying where in relation to SPOT the FIG goes, as in different renderings SPOT may be anywhere on a line. Purely as a suggestion: the line containing SPOT is completed before the FIG is rendered. Regards, -- Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Editor, Digital Media Group 101 Morris St. Sebastopol, Calif., 95472 A Davenport Group sponsor. For information on the Davenport Group see ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/README.html or http://www.ora.com/davenport/README.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Thu Jul 13 11:37:12 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18603; Thu, 13 Jul 95 11:37:12 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA23571; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 13:58:02 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 10:54:46 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507131758.AA23571@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <199507131754.AA04608@mail.crl.com> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: implies

    ? References: <9507131303.AA00347@walden.ot.com> <199507122231.SAA03983@beach.w3.org> In-Reply-To: <9507131303.AA00347@walden.ot.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 10:54:46 -0700 From: Joe English Content-Length: 909 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1141 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Jeremy Hylton wrote: > I don't think this really explains why must break paragraphs. My > notion of "displayed formulas" and other things that are typically > called "figures" is that they may fall within a paragraph. > > Is there a good reason why can't be changed? I would guess that is not allowed in paragraphs for the same reason that

      ,
      , ,
      , and other
      displayed elements are not; it's mostly due to the way that
      the DTD is structured.  By convention, paragraphs cannot
      contain any other block-level elements; making a special 
      case for  would be inconsistent.
      
      I have a fairly good idea of how to restructure the DTD
      so that all of these constructs are allowed, but it's a rather
      significant change and it could have serious implications,
      especially for browsers which implement stylesheets. 
      
      
      --Joe English
      
        jenglish@crl.com
      
      
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      >In regards to Tilbury's following comment...
      >
      >"I think I'd be inclined to agree with Brian here. We already have a
      >mechanism for creating lists, ordered or otherwise, and for creating
      >entries within these lists, and encapsulating further lists within these
      >entries. {snip snip} We already have three list metaphor elements within
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      More text that comes after the figure. This would allow the figure to be displayed using an OLE type mechanism to format the PDF file if support is there for it, but would format the alternate content (which includes a FIG) if no PDF helper was available. Michael Johnson Relay Technology, Inc. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jul 14 12:52:56 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29152; Fri, 14 Jul 95 12:52:56 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA00420; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 15:47:51 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 13:46:54 -0600 Resent-Message-Id: <9507141947.AA00420@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <199507141946.NAA03125@rust.nmt.edu> From: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 13:46:54 -0600 In-Reply-To: michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson) "Re: No IMG in FIG" (Jul 14, 2:23pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson) Subject: Re: No IMG in FIG Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Content-Length: 656 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1165 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I certainly like the idea of using s for alternate embedding selection... one could even use a FIG to embed HTML, allowing a very quick-and-dirty client-side include. In some ways, this reminds me of the tag used by w3-mode and Netscape, but seems far more versatile. Is this worth changing the DTD for? I think so... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Benjamin C. W. Sittler -- Email: bsittler@nmt.edu -- Snail: P.O. Box 153 Web: http://nmt.edu/~bsittler/ bcws@arc.unm.edu Socorro, NM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jul 14 14:07:29 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01727; Fri, 14 Jul 95 14:07:29 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA00639; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 17:02:07 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 16:22:37 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507142102.AA00639@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <199507142022.QAA13688@beach.w3.org> To: Paul Prescod Cc: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler), www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: Case Sensitivity in LINK REL/REV In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 1995 14:38:12 EDT." <199507141838.OAA21046@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 16:22:37 -0400 From: "Daniel W. Connolly" Content-Length: 732 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1167 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list In message <199507141838.OAA21046@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, Paul Prescod writ es: >> >> Are the line REV and REL attributes case-sensitive? i.e., is > REL=ToC> any different than ? Also, what about the TITLE >> attribute? > >According to the March DTD [1] REV and REL are NAME attributes: Nice answer... > >On a related note, there are lots of people on the Web with questions like >this that do not konw how to read a DTD. Is there an introductionry >text online? Start here: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/SGML/ All the interesting SGML online materials I've seen are there. Of all those links, the one I'd recommend is: Gentle Introduction to SGML ftp://www.ucc.ie/pub/sgml/p2sg.ps Dan From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jul 14 17:35:19 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06965; Fri, 14 Jul 95 17:35:19 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02053; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 20:34:34 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:30:21 -0600 Resent-Message-Id: <9507150034.AA02053@www19.w3.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:30:21 -0600 Message-Id: <199507150030.SAA24032@prism.nmt.edu> X-Sender: bsittler@nmt.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler) Subject: Re: No IMG in FIG Content-Length: 1196 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1168 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) wrote: >No, no, if you can't display FIG you aren't going to be able to >display IMG. Put another way, if you can display IMG you can handle >FIG. And as the point of the alternate stuff (the contents of the >FIGTEXT element in FIG) is to be displayed *only if FIG isn't >handled* you shouldn't put IMG in it. It is not true that the ability to display IMGs implies the ability to display FIGs... take the case of current web browsers! Consider those that call external viewing programs to draw inline images (inside the browser window)... these external viewers often lack the capability for displaying transparent overlays. FIGs really imply that the graphics engine is built into the browser, or at least written specifically for the web browser. By expanding the capabilities of the tag to include s in the alternate text, we give existing graphical browsers (i.e. HTML 2.0) a lease on life, allowing them to display usable graphics (often ore than one) in place of a figure. This would be especially useful for browsers unable to handle client-side image maps in cases where server-side maps are inappropriate (i.e. because of heavy usage.) From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Fri Jul 14 17:40:44 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07061; Fri, 14 Jul 95 17:40:44 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02139; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 20:35:41 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:31:00 -0600 Resent-Message-Id: <9507150035.AA02139@www19.w3.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:31:00 -0600 Message-Id: <199507150031.SAA24038@prism.nmt.edu> X-Sender: bsittler@nmt.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler) Subject: Re: No IMG in FIG Content-Length: 620 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1169 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Benjamin C. W. Sittler wrote: >> It would be really nice if the content model on FID were changed to allow >> IMG's inside... > >I agree. If FIG is a peer of P, why doesn't it have the same content >model? > > Brian > >--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- >brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/ > FIG has a more general content model than P, actually... it includes a dummy element whose content-model is %body.text, so it can contain

      . In fact... all text inside a FIG needs to be contained in

      , , etc. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sat Jul 15 10:25:03 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20135; Sat, 15 Jul 95 10:25:03 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA10996; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 13:24:27 -0400 Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 11:23:35 -0600 Resent-Message-Id: <9507151724.AA10996@www19.w3.org> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 11:23:35 -0600 Message-Id: <199507151723.LAA01958@prism.nmt.edu> X-Sender: bsittler@nmt.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Terry Allen" From: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler) Subject: Re: No IMG in FIG Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Content-Length: 1817 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1170 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) wrote: >You gents are assuming that there will be certain browsers that need >certain fallback markup, and want to complexify FIG in order to supply >the fallback markup. Aside from the likely transitory nature of such >a situation, this is bad design. Where do you stop? Why not do this >for math, tables, anything not handled right by *some* browser? What >would we be left with when all browsers handle FIG correctly? [...] After considering the arguments against using FIG for embedding with alternatives, I agree that giving FIG the ability to contain other FIGs is probably not a good idea. This should be handled using either a full SGML browser or, better yet, browser-server negotiation. IMGs inside FIGs, however, give HTML 2 browsers (which will still exist for quite some time, in my opinion) the ability to display something usable in place of an HTML 3 FIG. >Better to keep it simple, which is one of the few agreed upon design >criteria, and leave FIGTEXT as text only. I disagree. the FIG|IMG exclusion on FIG should be changed to exclude FIG only. >However, the issue will get chewed over all over again once someone >writes an Internet-Draft for FIG; I believe Dave Raggett may be working >on one. > >For really complex interactions of markup and browser you probably >want a browser with a proper API and the ability to take an arbitrary >DTD. Check out Panorama. I use Panorama, it seems like a nice SGML browser. In fact, I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to check web pages against the HTML DTDs, especially if they are testing modified version of the DTD (i.e., allowing IMG in FIGs). The only file you'll need that's not available from one of the HTML 3 mirrors is the Extended Latin character set. Lots of fun, if you have MS Windows. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sat Jul 15 17:13:22 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26464; Sat, 15 Jul 95 17:13:22 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA14583; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 20:11:56 -0400 Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 20:11:13 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507160011.AA14583@www19.w3.org> From: Mike Batchelor Message-Id: <199507160011.UAA03313@clark.net> Subject: "Enhanced for Microsoft Internet Explorer" To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 20:11:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 490 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1171 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Oh boy.

      This page is enhanced for Microsoft Internet Explorer
      I think we can guess what the chances are that they will submit a DTD or any other kind of documentation for this. http://www.msn.com/ for the curious.... A curious thing happened though - Arena 0.97g did not complain of "Bad HTML" on this page. -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sat Jul 15 17:22:33 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26573; Sat, 15 Jul 95 17:22:33 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA14978; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 20:21:54 -0400 Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 20:21:10 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507160021.AA14978@www19.w3.org> From: Mike Batchelor Message-Id: <199507160021.UAA05279@clark.net> Subject: Re: No IMG in FIG To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 20:21:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199507150031.SAA24038@prism.nmt.edu> from "Benjamin C. W. Sittler" at Jul 14, 95 06:31:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 951 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1172 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Benjamin C. W. Sittler once wrote... > > >On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Benjamin C. W. Sittler wrote: > >> It would be really nice if the content model on FID were changed to allow > >> IMG's inside... > > > >I agree. If FIG is a peer of P, why doesn't it have the same content > >model? > > > > Brian > > > >--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- > >brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/ > > > > FIG has a more general content model than P, actually... it includes a dummy > element whose content-model is %body.text, so it can contain

      . > > In fact... all text inside a FIG needs to be contained in

      , , etc. > While experimenting with the element, I found that is rendered by Arena 0.97g outside of the figure, as a regular , part of the text flow around the . -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sat Jul 15 20:07:13 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28470; Sat, 15 Jul 95 20:07:13 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA17916; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 23:06:53 -0400 Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 95 20:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507160306.AA17916@www19.w3.org> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 95 20:02:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Linda Hemenway Subject: Targets w/in tables To: www-html@www10.w3.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 998 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1173 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I have successfully linked to areas within a document by using this scripting Area 1 and then somewhere else on the document typing Blah Blah This all seems to fall apart when I try this within a table. If I create a single linked area for the entire table it works

      Figure 1
      blah blah...... it works However if I want several links within the table it doesn't work I've tried ........ In both cases the links within a table are ignored. I have a list of faculty/staff schedules within a table and wanted to create links to each person from a list at the top of the table. I can create a table for each faculty member but they don't all have the same shape (even though I gave them the same width) and creating 69 tables is a pain. I must be doing something slightly wrong, so thanks in advance. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sat Jul 15 21:16:13 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29210; Sat, 15 Jul 95 21:16:13 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA21677; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:15:43 -0400 Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 21:11:06 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507160415.AA21677@www19.w3.org> From: "Terry Allen" Message-Id: <9507152111.ZM27492@dmg.west.ora.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 21:11:06 -0700 In-Reply-To: Linda Hemenway "Targets w/in tables" (Jul 15, 8:02pm) References: X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.1 10apr95) To: Linda Hemenway , www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: Targets w/in tables Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 1311 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1174 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list As tables haven't been specified yet, there is no way of saying what is not working as you expect. But it certainly sounds like something broken on the browser end; a TD (that is, a cell), ought to allow the inclusion of an A. On the other hand, the table implementations out there have probably been built in some relation to the set of tags (I dare not say the actual content models) of some now-obsolete version of Dave Raggett's table model, in which TD may have an ID attribute. Try using that instead of an A and see what happens. One point of IDs is that they are potential link targets; if they're specified as SGML IDs then each ID value must begin with a letter. HTML's A tag's NAME is specified as an ID in the Recommended mode (somewhat futilely), and as CDATA (looser rules, best to quote these values): ]]> ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-html-spec-04.txt Regards, -- Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Editor, Digital Media Group 101 Morris St. Sebastopol, Calif., 95472 A Davenport Group sponsor. For information on the Davenport Group see ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/README.html or http://www.ora.com/davenport/README.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Sun Jul 16 21:46:42 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17573; Sun, 16 Jul 95 21:46:42 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AB00515; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 00:35:17 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 00:34:23 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507170435.AB00515@www19.w3.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 00:34:23 -0400 From: Ka-Ping Yee Message-Id: <199507170434.AAA09521@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Psychology and usefulness Content-Length: 1258 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1175 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list In article <173DA10049S86.FLAVELL@cernvm.cern.ch>, Alan J Flavell wrote: > >I'm going to admit that when I'm marking up pages in a hurry, I >do tend to use and when I really mean em or strong. But I >don't extol that as a virtue - I know it's poor style. You know, there's some very unfortunate human psychology happening here. When HTML was designed, why did they have to make and so much SHORTER than and ? Everyone shrinks away a little from typing six times as much everywhere they want emphasis... And so people take the easiest way out. (I declare myself guilty on some occasions as well.) But i do hope that these kinds of issues will no longer be ignored. Sure, we want a good content-based standard, but it doesn't hurt to have one that people tend to use because it has more apparent convenience. Ping (Ka-Ping Yee): 2B Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada kryee@csclub.uwaterloo.ca | 62A Churchill St, Waterloo N2L 2X2, 519 886-3947 CWSF 89, 90, 92; LIYSF 90, 91; Shad Valley 92; DOE 93; IMO 91, 93; ACMIPC 94 * Skuld * Amano Ai * Hiyama Hikaru * Tendou Akane * Ayukawa Madoka * WWW maintainer for the Canadian Space Agency: From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 17 08:37:26 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29685; Mon, 17 Jul 95 08:37:26 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA10834; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:12:58 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:08:52 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507171512.AA10834@www19.w3.org> From: Mike Batchelor Message-Id: <199507171508.LAA20089@clark.net> Subject: Re: Psychology and usefulness To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:08:52 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199507170434.AAA09521@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> from "Ka-Ping Yee" at Jul 17, 95 00:34:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1239 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1176 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Ka-Ping Yee once wrote... > > > In article <173DA10049S86.FLAVELL@cernvm.cern.ch>, > Alan J Flavell wrote: > > > >I'm going to admit that when I'm marking up pages in a hurry, I > >do tend to use and when I really mean em or strong. But I > >don't extol that as a virtue - I know it's poor style. > > You know, there's some very unfortunate human psychology happening > here. When HTML was designed, why did they have to make and > so much SHORTER than and ? Everyone shrinks away > a little from typing six times as much everywhere they want emphasis... > > And so people take the easiest way out. (I declare myself guilty > on some occasions as well.) But i do hope that these kinds of issues > will no longer be ignored. Sure, we want a good content-based standard, > but it doesn't hurt to have one that people tend to use because it has > more apparent convenience. I don't know if SGML supports the concept, but couldn't certain throwback tags like and be interpreted in the new standard as aliases for and , with the goal of deprecating them in a future standard? -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 17 11:51:55 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07555; Mon, 17 Jul 95 11:51:55 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02137; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 14:32:07 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 14:22:27 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507171832.AA02137@www19.w3.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 14:22:27 -0400 From: Ibrahim Mustafa Message-Id: <9507171822.AA05449@seeaxp.tay.dec.com> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Preprocessing in HTML Content-Length: 578 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1178 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list There is no conditioning in the html language is there ??? We wrote the online help system for two products in html. 95% of the code is the same for both products. The only difference is in mentioning the product name .... I am thinking of using "CPP" or "m4" macros to distinguish betwen the products. So when compiling the code against one product, the help will appear to be for that product only. Is that a sound approach ?? Any plans for HTML to do so ?? ex: #ifdef PRODUCT1 #include "file1.html" #else #include "file2.html #endif . . . -- ... Ibrahim From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 17 13:22:17 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11590; Mon, 17 Jul 95 13:22:17 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA03742; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 16:10:14 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 15:59:45 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507172010.AA03742@www19.w3.org> From: Paul Prescod Message-Id: <199507171959.PAA01726@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: Preprocessing in HTML To: mustafa@seeaxp.tay.dec.com (Ibrahim Mustafa) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 15:59:45 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <9507171822.AA05449@seeaxp.tay.dec.com> from "Ibrahim Mustafa" at Jul 17, 95 02:22:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 928 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1179 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > There is no conditioning in the html language is there ??? HTML is based on SGML. SGML has always supported this sort of thing. HTML browser vendors have chosen not to implement it. You can do it, but Netscape and Mosaic will not display it correctly. The SGML feature you are looking for is known as an entity. You can learn all about it from any SGML book, but it won't do you much good on the World Wide Web. While I am on the topic: a question for the readers. Should the HTML WG specify a mapping from SYSTEM identifiers in HTML documents to URLs? Wouldn't that be a step towards external entity support? The HTML standard seems to completely ignore the concept of external entities. For instance I would _much_ rather use external entities to deal with pictures than CDATA attributes. Of course the CDATA attributes are not going to go away, but shouldn't the SGML entity way be also allowed? Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 17 13:43:32 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12497; Mon, 17 Jul 95 13:43:32 PDT Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 13:43:32 PDT From: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Message-Id: <9507172043.AA12497@eitech.eit.com> Content-Length: 0 Apparently-To: Apparently-To: Apparently-To: Apparently-To: % I don't know if SGML supports the concept, but couldn't certain throwback % tags like and be interpreted in the new standard as aliases for % and , with the goal of deprecating them in a future standard? But people sometimes just need to specify that they want , disregarding what the browser believes is better. If it were for me, I'd just add a one- or two-letter synonym for , like or . I notice I have no problem in writing , after all it is just one character more than ! .mau. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 17 14:09:50 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13623; Mon, 17 Jul 95 14:09:50 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA04778; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 16:54:21 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 16:50:18 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507172054.AA04778@www19.w3.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 16:50:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Dinowitz X-Sender: mdinowit@acc6 To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Search Engine Help Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ive been lurking for quite some time and would stay that way for Content-Length: 182 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1180 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list more, but a problem has arisen. I need some info on building a search engine and coding it into a page. I need to run get forms to some sort of data base. All help is appreciated. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 17 14:17:23 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13936; Mon, 17 Jul 95 14:17:23 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA05084; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 17:02:38 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 16:57:56 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507172102.AA05084@www19.w3.org> From: Paul Prescod Message-Id: <199507172057.QAA13035@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: Psychology and usefulness To: mikebat@clark.net (Mike Batchelor) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 16:57:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <199507171508.LAA20089@clark.net> from "Mike Batchelor" at Jul 17, 95 11:08:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 390 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1181 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > I don't know if SGML supports the concept, but couldn't certain throwback > tags like and be interpreted in the new standard as aliases for > and , with the goal of deprecating them in a future standard? A tag name should not imply more about its formatting than it can deliver. Why not deprecate them (as well as BIG and SMALL) and get it over with? Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 17 16:15:00 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18597; Mon, 17 Jul 95 16:15:00 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA07582; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 18:57:56 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 18:54:04 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507172257.AA07582@www19.w3.org> From: Mike Batchelor Message-Id: <199507172254.SAA18571@clark.net> Subject: Re: Psychology and usefulness To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 18:54:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from "Alexei Kosut" at Jul 17, 95 02:22:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 692 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1183 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Alexei Kosut once wrote... > > On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Paul Prescod wrote: > > > A tag name should not imply more about its formatting than it can deliver. > > Why not deprecate them (as well as BIG and SMALL) and get it over with? > > Now this is interesting... deprecate a tag that doesn't exit. Correct me > if I'm wrong, but as far as I'm aware, the only place that BIG and SMALL > exist is in the HTML 3.0 draft, and I don't believe any browsers > implement it, either. So why not just forget they ever existed, and not > bother with the deprecation? Mosaic 2.6beta implements , but not . -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 17 17:40:20 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21074; Mon, 17 Jul 95 17:40:20 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA09392; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 20:27:12 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 20:26:34 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507180027.AA09392@www19.w3.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 20:26:34 -0400 From: Mike Batchelor Message-Id: <199507180026.UAA16532@clark.net> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV) Content-Length: 1505 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1185 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list I submit the following with a slight sense of alarm. NCSA is claiming that Netscape attributes are part of HTML v3. Go to the link this person specifies and see for yourself. Follow the link on that page to the sample background images and see some more mis-information. Somebody ought to go smack the WinMosaic developers upside da haid. A lot of people look the NCSA as a group that knows what they are talking about when it comes to the Web. ---from comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows--- I asked this at the authoring.html group, but I never got an answer. in the NCSA Mosiac final beta release notes at: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/Docs/RnotesFB.htm#HTML there are note on attributes for the body tag to change the colors in a document. These appear to resemble Netscapes extensions. I cannot find similar attributes in the HTML 3 spec at: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/docbody.html So, the question is: are these attributes real HTML? or did NCSA play follow the leader to Netscape? Does anyone know if NCSA plans to implement style sheets ever? C h a r l e s P e y t o n T a y l o r ctaylor@nps.navy.mil The opinions and views expressed ## even though we're on our own, are my own and do not reflect ## we are never all alone, Those of the Naval PostGraduate School ## when we are singing, singing. ---end excerpt--- -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 17 19:41:27 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24188; Mon, 17 Jul 95 19:41:27 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA10742; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 22:19:55 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 22:16:07 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507180219.AA10742@www19.w3.org> From: Mike Batchelor Message-Id: <199507180216.WAA16857@clark.net> Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 22:16:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199507180059.RAA16057@seanet.com> from "Jack Beslanwitch" at Jul 17, 95 05:59:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 2621 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1186 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Jack Beslanwitch once wrote... > > Mike, > I could be wrong about this, but I seem to remember that the body > background elements including the text colors elements implemented in > Netscape are in the html 3.0 dtd or at least one of them that I read. The > main elements that are clearly not in the dtd are blink and embed. Again, I > could be wrong on this, but I believe this to be so. I just checked the DTD again, and the only BODY attribute is background, which indicates a URI for a texture tile for the document background. No text colors, link colors, vlink colors, etc. Yet the NCSA WinMosaic pages say they all are part of HTML v3. > > At 08:26 PM 7/17/95 -0400, you wrote: > >I submit the following with a slight sense of alarm. NCSA is claiming > >that Netscape attributes are part of HTML v3. Go to the link this > >person specifies and see for yourself. Follow the link on that page to > >the sample background images and see some more mis-information. Somebody > >ought to go smack the WinMosaic developers upside da haid. A lot of > >people look the NCSA as a group that knows what they are talking about > >when it comes to the Web. > > > > ---from comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows--- > >I asked this at the authoring.html group, but I never got an > >answer. > > > >in the NCSA Mosiac final beta release notes at: > >http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/Docs/RnotesFB.htm#HTML > > > >there are note on attributes for the body tag to change the colors > >in a document. These appear to resemble Netscapes extensions. > > > >I cannot find similar attributes in the HTML 3 spec at: > > > >http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/docbody.html > > > >So, the question is: are these attributes real HTML? or did NCSA > >play follow the leader to Netscape? > > > >Does anyone know if NCSA plans to implement style sheets ever? > > > >C h a r l e s P e y t o n T a y l o r ctaylor@nps.navy.mil > >The opinions and views expressed ## even though we're on our own, > >are my own and do not reflect ## we are never all alone, > >Those of the Naval PostGraduate School ## when we are singing, singing. > > ---end excerpt--- > >-- > > %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/ %%%%%% > > > > warlock@warlock.seanet.com (Jack Beslanwitch) > http://www.seanet.com/Users/warlock/conventions.html > Science Fiction Conventions Northwest home page > (206) 723-9906 > -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 17 19:47:34 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24456; Mon, 17 Jul 95 19:47:34 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA05939; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 17:31:23 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 14:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507172131.AA05939@www19.w3.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 14:22:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Alexei Kosut To: Paul Prescod Cc: Mike Batchelor , www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: Psychology and usefulness In-Reply-To: <199507172057.QAA13035@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 791 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1182 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Paul Prescod wrote: > A tag name should not imply more about its formatting than it can deliver. > Why not deprecate them (as well as BIG and SMALL) and get it over with? Now this is interesting... deprecate a tag that doesn't exit. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I'm aware, the only place that BIG and SMALL exist is in the HTML 3.0 draft, and I don't believe any browsers implement it, either. So why not just forget they ever existed, and not bother with the deprecation? --/ Alexei Kosut /--------/ Lefler on IRC ----------------------------/ The viewpoints expressed above are entirely false, and in no way represent Alexei Kosut nor any other person or entity. /-------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 17 20:44:31 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25679; Mon, 17 Jul 95 20:44:31 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA11339; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 23:36:24 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 21:35:39 -0600 Resent-Message-Id: <9507180336.AA11339@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <9507180335.AA12302@sticky.usu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh Version 1.5.3 To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 95 22:16:07 EDT." <199507180216.WAA16857@clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 21:35:39 -0600 From: brandon@sticky.usu.edu X-Mts: smtp Content-Length: 1655 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1187 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list < Jack Beslanwitch once wrote... < > < > Mike, < > I could be wrong about this, but I seem to remember that the body < > background elements including the text colors elements implemented in < > Netscape are in the html 3.0 dtd or at least one of them that I read. The < > main elements that are clearly not in the dtd are blink and embed. Again, I < > could be wrong on this, but I believe this to be so. < < I just checked the DTD again, and the only BODY attribute is background, < which indicates a URI for a texture tile for the document background. No < text colors, link colors, vlink colors, etc. Yet the NCSA WinMosaic pages < say they all are part of HTML v3. Yes. Infact, the english spec (rather than the DTD) states that text colors *MAY* need to be adjusted, but earlier on it says that background is only for the benefit of clients that do not support style sheets. I.e. Style sheets are the right way. Netscape color extensions (like many other netscape extensions) are hot air and presumptiously defined. Unfortunately, style sheets are still being defined :) For everybodies entertainment, I include the background definition text: (url: http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html/docbody.html) BACKGROUND This can be used to specify a URI for an image tile to cover the document background. This provides a way of giving a group of documents a distinctive appearance. Clients may ignore this attribute. It is included here for the benefits of clients that don't support style sheets. Note that the text color may need to be adjusted to show an adequate contrast with the background. -Brandon Gillespie- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Mon Jul 17 21:51:20 1995 Return-Path: Received: from raps (raps.eit.COM) by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26588; Mon, 17 Jul 95 21:51:20 PDT Received: from www19.w3.org (www19.w3.org [18.52.0.17]) by raps (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA17753; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 21:51:15 -0700 Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA08096; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 19:17:44 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 16:08:17 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507172317.AA08096@www19.w3.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 16:08:17 -0700 Message-Id: <199507172308.QAA03916@iserver.interse.com> X-Sender: tmyerson@interse.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: www-html@w3.org, www-lib@w3.org, www-style@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org From: tmyerson@iserver.interse.com (Terry Myerson) Subject: Accurate user-based log file analysis Content-Length: 1141 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1184 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list We started shipping today Inters=E9=92 market focus, a Windows based= Internet marketing tool. 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FYI, Terry ----------------------------------- Terry Myerson Interse' Corporation 408 732-0932 x-230 408 732-7038 fax tmyerson@interse.com http://www.interse.com ----------------------------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 00:02:25 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28472; Tue, 18 Jul 95 00:02:25 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA14599; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 02:54:44 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:48:00 +1000 (EST) Resent-Message-Id: <9507180654.AA14599@www19.w3.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:48:00 +1000 (EST) From: david To: Mike Batchelor Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: Psychology and usefulness In-Reply-To: <199507172254.SAA18571@clark.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 694 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1188 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Mike Batchelor wrote: > > Now this is interesting... deprecate a tag that doesn't exit. Correct me > > if I'm wrong, but as far as I'm aware, the only place that BIG and SMALL > > exist is in the HTML 3.0 draft, and I don't believe any browsers > > implement it, either. So why not just forget they ever existed, and not > > bother with the deprecation? > > Mosaic 2.6beta implements , but not . Well, that doesn't change the fact that HTML 3.0 is still just a draft (a moving target by definition), and since that version of Mosaic is itself just a beta (software's equivalent of a draft), surely it could be quietly forgotten.. . . . . dave From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 05:39:23 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03418; Tue, 18 Jul 95 05:39:23 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA19619; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:25:10 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:24:20 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507181225.AA19619@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <199507181224.IAA06411@postoffice4.mail.cornell.edu> X-Sender: js79@postoffice4.mail.cornell.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:24:20 -0400 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: js79@cornell.edu (Joel Sondak) Subject: mailing list Cc: Postmaster.www.html@www10.w3.org Content-Length: 97 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1189 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Somehow I got on this miliing list by mistake. Can I be removed? I have been trying for weeks! From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 07:31:31 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06140; Tue, 18 Jul 95 07:31:31 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA23428; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:19:56 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:16:11 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507181419.AA23428@www19.w3.org> From: Mike Batchelor Message-Id: <199507181416.KAA27239@clark.net> Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 To: www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@www10.w3.org Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:16:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <9507180335.AA12302@sticky.usu.edu> from "brandon@sticky.usu.edu" at Jul 17, 95 09:35:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 3009 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1190 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list brandon@sticky.usu.edu once wrote... > > < Jack Beslanwitch once wrote... > < > > < > Mike, > < > I could be wrong about this, but I seem to remember that the body > < > background elements including the text colors elements implemented in > < > Netscape are in the html 3.0 dtd or at least one of them that I read. The > < > main elements that are clearly not in the dtd are blink and embed. Again, I > < > could be wrong on this, but I believe this to be so. > < > < I just checked the DTD again, and the only BODY attribute is background, > < which indicates a URI for a texture tile for the document background. No > < text colors, link colors, vlink colors, etc. Yet the NCSA WinMosaic pages > < say they all are part of HTML v3. > > Yes. Infact, the english spec (rather than the DTD) states that text colors > *MAY* need to be adjusted, but earlier on it says that background is only > for the benefit of clients that do not support style sheets. > > I.e. Style sheets are the right way. > > Netscape color extensions (like many other netscape extensions) are hot air > and presumptiously defined. > > Unfortunately, style sheets are still being defined :) There's nothing to prevent a vendor from inplementing their own style sheet format, documenting it poorly, whatever they want. It won't interfere with the HTML part of the document, and they can do it right now with the blessing of the W3 Org, the robot maintainers, and everybody else on the Web. I just got the source to viola, and though I am having a problem getting it to compile on Linux, the docs included a basic style sheet specification, and a Style lib some other app could use. Of course, it would be nice if vendors would use a unique identifier so that authors who are inclined to do so, may reference a style sheet for every known implementation on the planet. :) > For everybodies entertainment, I include the background definition text: > (url: http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html/docbody.html) > > BACKGROUND This can be used to specify a URI for an image tile to cover the > document background. This provides a way of giving a group of documents > a distinctive appearance. Clients may ignore this attribute. It is > included here for the benefits of clients that don't support style sheets. > Note that the text color may need to be adjusted to show an adequate > contrast with the background. I really think that should be changed to to be consistent with the rest of the image attributes. Or perhaps can have classes, then a site-wide style sheet can look like: body.index: back.image = tile1.gif body.toc: back.image = tile2.gif body.advert: back.image = garish.gif I suppose I should dash off a note to the WinMosaic address and refer them to the DTD and ask them to remove the mis-information about their Netscape tags. -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 07:38:06 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06307; Tue, 18 Jul 95 07:38:06 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA23556; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:28:23 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 10:27:34 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9507181428.AA23556@www19.w3.org> From: "Ian S. Graham" Message-Id: <199507181427.KAA27984@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 10:27:34 EDT Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Content-Length: 1286 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1191 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > > < Jack Beslanwitch once wrote... > < > > < > Mike, > < > I could be wrong about this, but I seem to remember that the body > < > background elements including the text colors elements implemented in > < > Netscape are in the html 3.0 dtd or at least one of them that I read. The > < > main elements that are clearly not in the dtd are blink and embed. Again, I > < > could be wrong on this, but I believe this to be so. > < > < I just checked the DTD again, and the only BODY attribute is background, > < which indicates a URI for a texture tile for the document background. No > < text colors, link colors, vlink colors, etc. Yet the NCSA WinMosaic pages > < say they all are part of HTML v3. > > Yes. Infact, the english spec (rather than the DTD) states that text colors > *MAY* need to be adjusted, but earlier on it says that background is only > for the benefit of clients that do not support style sheets. > > I.e. Style sheets are the right way. > > Netscape color extensions (like many other netscape extensions) are hot air > and presumptiously defined. > > Unfortunately, style sheets are still being defined :) Hmm.... so something that is implemented, operational and popular is "hot air", while "still being defined" stylesheets are not??? Ian From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 08:13:34 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07481; Tue, 18 Jul 95 08:13:34 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA25019; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 11:03:39 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 11:02:03 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507181503.AA25019@www19.w3.org> From: Mike Batchelor Message-Id: <199507181502.LAA09394@clark.net> Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 To: www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@www10.w3.org Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 11:02:03 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199507181427.KAA27984@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> from "Ian S. Graham" at Jul 18, 95 10:27:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 2114 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1192 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Ian S. Graham once wrote... > > > > > < Jack Beslanwitch once wrote... > > < > > > < > Mike, > > < > I could be wrong about this, but I seem to remember that the body > > < > background elements including the text colors elements implemented in > > < > Netscape are in the html 3.0 dtd or at least one of them that I read. The > > < > main elements that are clearly not in the dtd are blink and embed. Again, I > > < > could be wrong on this, but I believe this to be so. > > < > > < I just checked the DTD again, and the only BODY attribute is background, > > < which indicates a URI for a texture tile for the document background. No > > < text colors, link colors, vlink colors, etc. Yet the NCSA WinMosaic pages > > < say they all are part of HTML v3. > > > > Yes. Infact, the english spec (rather than the DTD) states that text colors > > *MAY* need to be adjusted, but earlier on it says that background is only > > for the benefit of clients that do not support style sheets. > > > > I.e. Style sheets are the right way. > > > > Netscape color extensions (like many other netscape extensions) are hot air > > and presumptiously defined. > > > > Unfortunately, style sheets are still being defined :) > > Hmm.... so something that is implemented, operational and popular is "hot air", > while "still being defined" stylesheets are not??? I don't have a problem with NCSA implementing the Netscape attributes in the new WinMosaic. I have a problem with them documenting them as being part of HTML v3.0, when they clearly are not. NCSA is considered an authority by many people on things to do with the WWW. It's unfortunate enough that Netscape is disseminating mis-information to bolster its bottom line, at the expense of the Web as a whole. That NCSA is contributing to the trend of fragmenting the Web into vendor-specific ghettos is doubly unfortunate. I just wrote them a note pointing out the error, and kindly asking them to correct it to reflect the true status of the HTML v3 DTD. -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 08:35:04 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08290; Tue, 18 Jul 95 08:35:04 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA25575; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 11:25:04 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:23:25 BST Resent-Message-Id: <9507181525.AA25575@www19.w3.org> From: "Chris Tilbury" Organization: Estates, University of Warwick, UK To: "Ian S. Graham" Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:23:25 BST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Chris Tilbury" Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Message-Id: <1CFB4747FA@forest.estate.warwick.ac.uk> Content-Length: 2440 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1193 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On 18 Jul 95 at 10:27, Ian S. Graham wrote: [someone else wrote ...] > > Netscape color extensions (like many other netscape extensions) > > are hot air and presumptiously defined. > > > > Unfortunately, style sheets are still being defined :) > Hmm.... so something that is implemented, operational and popular is > "hot air", while "still being defined" stylesheets are not??? No; Netscape's color extensions are hot air, and presumptiously defined, because they [Netscape] seem to have (or have had) the idea that by implementing these elements in their own browser - elements, I might add, which are entirely platform-dependent and conflict /wildly/ with some of the fundamentals principles guiding the development of HTML, version 3, those being "Platform Independence"[1], "Content not Presentation Markup"[2], and "Support for Non-Visual Media"[3] - that they can somehow "guide"[4] (force?) the path of the standardisation process, presumably by suggesting that since so many pages have been written with these attributes and tags, not to incorporate them would be unfair (since most of the Netscape tags or attributes are terribly appropriate as HTML). On the other hand, stylesheets are not any of these precisely because they are still being defined - no any one current implementation is making any claims of being the definitive "standard", and in fact, by their nature, every implementation could be completely different without it mattering one iota. (The stylesheet for a graphical browser is hardly going to be appropriate for a browser which uses speech synthesis, for example). The fact that something is implemented, operational and popular does not necessarily make it either appropriate or correct. References [1] para 19 [2] para 20 [3] para 22 [4] para 2, specifically: "Netscape Communications will continue to work with the appropriate standards bodies, including W3C and the authors of other WWW browsers, in an attempt to have these extensions available in all browsers in the near future." Regards, Chris -- Chris Tilbury, Estates Office, University of Warwick, UK, CV4 7AL Tel: +44 1203 523523 x2665 Fax: +44 1203 524444 MIME mail welcomed mailto:Chris.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 08:41:59 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08573; Tue, 18 Jul 95 08:41:59 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA25919; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 11:31:22 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 11:30:18 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507181531.AA25919@www19.w3.org> From: Paul Prescod Message-Id: <199507181530.LAA17200@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 To: igraham@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Ian S. Graham) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 11:30:18 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <199507181427.KAA27984@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> from "Ian S. Graham" at Jul 18, 95 10:27:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 626 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1194 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > Hmm.... so something that is implemented, operational and popular is "hot air", > while "still being defined" stylesheets are not??? It is important to stress that the concept of a style sheet is _not_ being defined. Any vendor can implement style sheets whenever they feel like it. Style sheets do not require changes to an HTML document that render HTML documents incorrect. Extra attributes to the BODY tag _do_. Style sheets are the best way to change the presentation of an HTML document, and have been since HTML 0. I have been using style sheets with HTML documents for more than a year now. Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 08:57:46 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09115; Tue, 18 Jul 95 08:57:46 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA26418; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 11:44:56 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 09:44:10 -0600 Resent-Message-Id: <9507181544.AA26418@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <199507181544.JAA23804@white.nmt.edu> From: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 09:44:10 -0600 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: IMG in FIG: Why not? Content-Length: 1192 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1195 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Is there any good reason why HTML 3 should not allow IMG inside FIG? I have used this with great effect (in my opinion) for navigation bars at the bottom of my pages [1] which work well with text browsers, better with HTML 2.0 browsers, and wonderfully with full FIG hotzone support in an HTML 3 (modified [2]) browser. [1] http://www.nmt.edu/~bsittler/origami.html "Origami Page" [2] http://www.nmt.edu/~bsittler/work/modification.html "-in- Modification..." P.S. This would, of course, require modification of only one line in the DTD... becomes This would affect no existing markup, and would make image maps "seperable" into multiple clickable images for pre-3.0 browsers. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Benjamin C. W. Sittler -- Email: bsittler@nmt.edu -- Snail: P.O. Box 153 Web: http://nmt.edu/~bsittler/ bcws@arc.unm.edu Socorro, NM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 09:09:43 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09551; Tue, 18 Jul 95 09:09:43 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA26946; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:00:21 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 08:52:01 PST Resent-Message-Id: <9507181600.AA26946@www19.w3.org> Subject: Re: Psychology and usefulness In-Reply-To: From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 08:52:01 PST Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Message-Id: <19950718.75C45C8.7D76@contessa.phone.net> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Content-Length: 639 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1196 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > > Mosaic 2.6beta implements , but not . > Well, that doesn't change the fact that HTML 3.0 is still just a draft (a > moving target by definition), and since that version of Mosaic is itself > just a beta (software's equivalent of a draft), surely it could be > quietly forgotten.. . . . Emacs-w3 implements both BIG and SMALL. It's a production browser. I do agree with the sentiment - you don't depreciate things that were never part of a standard. BIG and SMALL should simply be removed from the draft, and that's that. Emacs-w3 will probably keep them for a while, just as it's kept various HTML+ features. Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10873; Tue, 18 Jul 95 09:51:10 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA28111; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:30:29 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:24:47 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507181630.AA28111@www19.w3.org> From: Paul Prescod Message-Id: <199507181624.MAA26870@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: Psychology and usefulness To: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:24:47 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <19950718.75C45C8.7D76@contessa.phone.net> from "Mike Meyer" at Jul 18, 95 08:52:01 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 407 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1197 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > I do agree with the sentiment - you don't depreciate things that were > never part of a standard. BIG and SMALL should simply be removed from > the draft, and that's that. I should have cleared this up yesterday. My phrase "deprecate b and i (as well as BIG and SMALL)" was just a lazy man's short cut of saying "deprecate B and I (and remove BIG and SMALL from the proposed standard)." Paul Prescod From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 10:51:01 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13008; Tue, 18 Jul 95 10:51:01 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02184; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 13:45:00 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:44:04 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507181745.AA02184@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <9507181744.AA13508@deltanet.com> X-Sender: rcolman@mail.synsis.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:44:04 -0700 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: rcolman@synsis.com Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 Content-Length: 1047 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1198 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >No; Netscape's color extensions are hot air, and presumptiously >defined, because they [Netscape] seem to have (or have had) the idea >that by implementing these elements in their own browser - elements, >I might add, which are entirely platform-dependent and conflict >/wildly/ with some of the fundamentals principles guiding the >development of HTML, version 3, those being "Platform >Independence"[1], "Content not Presentation Markup"[2], and "Support >for Non-Visual Media"[3] - that they can somehow "guide"[4] (force?) the >path of the standardisation process, Wow, are you guys out of touch with reality or what! In case you hadn't noticed, Netscape is running on almost 5 million desktops with a 60% market share. Most of the Web page designers that I work with, and I work with many, include Netscape extensions without thinking twice about it. In this case, the tail is definitely waving the dog. Those who ignore dominant market share in an increasingly commercial WWW are bound to be swept right off the playing field. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 11:26:21 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14213; Tue, 18 Jul 95 11:26:21 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA03152; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 14:17:42 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 04:10:42 +1000 (EST) Resent-Message-Id: <9507181817.AA03152@www19.w3.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 04:10:42 +1000 (EST) From: david To: rcolman@synsis.com Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 In-Reply-To: <9507181744.AA13508@deltanet.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 231 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1199 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On Tue, 18 Jul 1995 rcolman@synsis.com wrote: > >No; Netscape's color extensions are hot air, and presumptiously [...] > >path of the standardisation process, > > Wow, are you guys out of touch with reality or what! No. dave From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 11:39:29 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14717; Tue, 18 Jul 95 11:39:29 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA03434; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 14:33:25 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 14:03:16 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9507181833.AA03434@www19.w3.org> Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 References: <9507181744.AA13508@deltanet.com> Message-Id: From: michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson) To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 14:03:16 EDT Content-Length: 3015 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1200 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >with a 60% market share. Most of the Web page designers that I work with, and I >work with many, include Netscape extensions without thinking twice about it. Which just goes to show that there are a lot of damned idiots out there designing web pages, but we knew that already. The problem with the Netscape "extensions" is that they are poorly designed, and very shortsighted. In the long run, Netscape has done the web a great disservice by trying to turn what started out as a great tool into their private commercial enterprise. Building a better browser or server is a fine and noble goal, but it should be done while paying attention to standards. The standards that are being designed (HTML 3.0, style sheets, sHTTP and so on) are without exception better solutions than what Netscape came up with. So now, on top of getting these standards finished and implemented by the larger web community, we have the problem of controlling the damage done by Netscape. Netscape didn't have to do this; for example, their addition of JPEG image support was perfectly reasonable, given that HTML does not specify what format images are to be in and that JPEG is the industry standard for photo- graphic image encoding. Their bookmarks, their highly configurable preferences view, their Postscript printing support, and other features, should have been enough to get them the market they wanted. They could then participate (and I do mean participate, not attempt to dictate) in the development of standards such as HTML 3.0 and sHTTP, implement these early, and still have an edge over their competitors. If they wanted to do something really useful for web page authors, they'd have made Netscape Navigator with an authoring mode that would help authors to write syntactically correct HTML. Instead, they marketed a browser that ignores blatant syntax errors and thus encourages people to write bad HTML. The problem was bad enough with just Mosaic to worry about, but at least the Mosaic team didn't go hog wild adding new tags. They just neglected to put in any kind of syntax checking, which still led to lots of bad pages. Netscape has been operating in a very myopic mode that can't see past the end of their profit margin, and has done great damage to the web thereby. Just because they (apparently) have 60% of the market share is not a recommendation for the Netscape "extensions". Rather, the fact that they have this large a share and continue to operate in such an irresponsible mode is a condemnation of Netscape as a member of the web community. If your web authoring buddies are serious about ensuring the future of the web, they should avoid using Netscape "extensions" and instead try to encourage Netscape to drop their "extensions" in favor of adherence to standards. Yes, I'm being an idealist here. Right now, the web needs idealists, and it needs them in large, highly vocal, numbers if we're to get the web back on the track that it ought to be on. Michael Johnson Relay Technology, Inc. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 12:01:25 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15670; Tue, 18 Jul 95 12:01:25 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA04111; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 14:55:33 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 19:50:31 BST Resent-Message-Id: <9507181855.AA04111@www19.w3.org> From: "Chris Tilbury" Organization: Estates, University of Warwick, UK To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 19:50:31 BST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Chris Tilbury" Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Message-Id: <206F4B36E2@forest.estate.warwick.ac.uk> Content-Length: 3187 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1201 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On 18 Jul 95 at 10:44, rcolman@synsis.com wrote: > Wow, are you guys out of touch with reality or what! The short answer? No. The long one? No. Rather, we're very much in touch with it. Rather than try and attempt to turn HTML into presentational markup, something which would fail miserably no matter how many elements you attempt to add, we're plugging stylesheets. Unlike
      , , , and all the amusing little presentational markup extensions which Netscape Corporation have added, stylesheets allow browser writers to come up with the most wonderfully sophisticated formatting capabilities, and allow authors to exploit those formatting capabilities on a per-platform/per-browser basis, whilst simultaneously allowing users of other browsers to access those pages without loosing any of the information content. For an example, compare the most wonderfully Netscape enhanced page to a well produced PDF or Postscript document - it pales in comparison. Even Netscape appreciate this - they've already indicated their intent to add PDF Reader technology[1], to incorporate Suns Java[2] language, and add Macromedia Director Playback[3] capabilities to their browsers. All of these are far more effective ways of improving both the quality and visual richness of 'Web pages than adding any number of pretty but ultimately disappointing bogus HTML elements, and can be done without bastardising the HTML language. > In case you hadn't noticed, Netscape is running on almost 5 million > desktops with a 60% market share. (Can anyone please provide a source for these figures? I'd be interested in investigating them. Either a URL or a reference to a publication is fine) > Most of the Web page designers that I work with, and I work with > many, include Netscape extensions without thinking twice about it. Most of the lemmings I've ever seen mindlessly throw themselves from clifftops. Whether I see twenty of them or twenty million of them won't affect my complete lack of desire to replicate them, either. > In this case, the tail is definitely waving the dog. Those who > ignore dominant market share in an increasingly commercial WWW are > bound to be swept right off the playing field. No, we'll just leave you to your
      KooL!
      Netscape "Enhanced" world, and get on with the serious business of constructing useful, powerful and accessible open standards for everyone, that make the Netscape Extensions look like the crude little hacks they are. References: [1] (it looks like this press release has disappeared from their server, as it happens, although the reference is still there.) [2] [3] Regards, Chris -- Chris Tilbury, Estates Office, University of Warwick, UK, CV4 7AL Tel: +44 1203 523523 x2665 Fax: +44 1203 524444 MIME mail welcomed mailto:Chris.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 12:17:03 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16346; Tue, 18 Jul 95 12:17:03 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA04516; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 15:11:56 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 15:07:55 -0500 Resent-Message-Id: <9507181911.AA04516@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <9507181907.AA25230@www10.w3.org> X-Sender: sears@mail.vt.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 15:07:55 -0500 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: sears@vt.edu (Pris Sears) Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 Content-Length: 627 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1202 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list IMHO, unless/until 100% of the browsers used for the web are Netscape, most web developers do not want to use bogus "netscape-only-tags" that will be broken gibberish for the rest of the world. My lab has a contract to run a public web site that should make as much sense to someone coming in with (ferinstance) a LYNX text-only browser on a modem or telnet connection as it does to the fortunate ones coming in using Netscape. Is this issue going to start a time-wasting flame session? Is there anything useful this group can do to rein in Netscape-isms? Pris Sears sears@vt.edu "Free your mind..." - G. Clinton From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 13:11:40 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18296; Tue, 18 Jul 95 13:11:40 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA05276; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 15:51:41 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:43:45 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507181951.AA05276@www19.w3.org> From: "Lou Montulli" Message-Id: <9507181243.ZM29294@strumpet.mcom.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:43:45 -0700 In-Reply-To: Mike Batchelor "Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3" (Jul 18, 11:02am) References: <199507181502.LAA09394@clark.net> X-Face: 2%:,dh#NyL=h+${dpRhMgWq_:WU|hRg,gd:q08ah!sc~a^V?8x}:6YSw>)K1n"&>ebiBHx1H5#zr*6qoFw%K,:yyH,'D7^54~HcZ4%CEdVGu#GE3T5WMztPF1GIhXU\-vT2{u61n8cJzcY7SxCzRl'O-`f"93K.yFdPJXrG#|7R X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.0 26oct94 MediaMail) To: Mike Batchelor , www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 1155 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1203 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > > I don't have a problem with NCSA implementing the Netscape > attributes in the new WinMosaic. I have a problem with them documenting > them as being part of HTML v3.0, when they clearly are not. NCSA is > considered an authority by many people on things to do with the WWW. It's > unfortunate enough that Netscape is disseminating mis-information to > bolster its bottom line, at the expense of the Web as a whole. That NCSA ^^^^^^^^^ > is contributing to the trend of fragmenting the Web into vendor-specific ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ghettos is doubly unfortunate. I just wrote them a note pointing out the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > error, and kindly asking them to correct it to reflect the true status of > the HTML v3 DTD. > If multiple vendors are supporting these BODY tags then they are obviously not vendor-specific. Perhaps they are just a good idea that should be added to the HTML 3 spec? :lou -- Lou Montulli http://www.mcom.com/people/montulli/ Netscape Communications Corp. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 13:19:57 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18565; Tue, 18 Jul 95 13:19:57 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA05891; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:09:02 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:04:32 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507182009.AA05891@www19.w3.org> From: Paul Prescod Message-Id: <199507182004.QAA03187@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 To: sears@vt.edu (Pris Sears) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:04:32 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <9507181907.AA25230@www10.w3.org> from "Pris Sears" at Jul 18, 95 03:07:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1617 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1205 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > Is there anything useful this group can do to rein in Netscape-isms? I think that it can help to fight the myth that the way to "extend" HTML is through new tags. My personal feeling is that the draft standard[1] contributes to this problem with these lines: To facilitate experimentation and interoperability between implementations of various versions of HTML, the installed base of HTML user agents supports a superset of the HTML 2.0 language by reducing it to HTML 2.0: markup in the form of a start-tag or end-tag, whose generic identifier is not declared is mapped to nothing during tokenization. Undeclared attributes are treated similarly. The entire attribute specification of an unknown attribute (i.e., the unknown attribute and its value, if any) should be ignored. On the other hand, references to undeclared entities should be treated as data characters. The standard goes on to say things which I very much agree with about not depending on this behaviour. I'm not sure what the point of this paragraph is, though. Is it meant to encourage a behaviour? or specify it? Of course any good Internet client program tries to gracefully recover from bad input, but why single out this particular mistake? Why is this paragraph in the HTML specification? The SGML mechanism for "experimentation and interoperability" is the DTD, not client-side down-translation of incorrect data. If clients do not know how to read a DTD, then servers must do the down-translation. Paul Prescod [1]ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-hmtl-spec-04.txt From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 13:45:44 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19417; Tue, 18 Jul 95 13:45:44 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA06632; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:33:59 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:28:44 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507182033.AA06632@www19.w3.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:28:44 -0400 From: lee@sq.com Message-Id: <9507182028.AA19431@sqrex.sq.com> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: changing i to em Content-Length: 1395 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1207 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list mikebat@clark.net wrote: > I don't know if SGML supports the concept, but couldn't certain throwback > tags like and be interpreted in the new standard as aliases for > and , with the goal of deprecating them in a future standard? No, because they don't mean the same thing. EM means something is emphasised, as in I'm very sorry to hear of your unfortunate loss. But italic might also be used for the title of a sculpture or work of art, or for an alien term or abbreviation such as op. cit. or passim. In SGML DTDs, I sometimes do something like London if there are lots of reasons why something might be in italic, and it isn't practical or appropriate to write a DTD to restrict them. Then if there are lots of elements, I can add an element to the DTD later without creating a legacy problem. The attribute can either be CDATA, or (as I prefer), a list like What (person|place|alien|abbreviation|title|other) #REQUIRED If.Other CDATA #IMPLIED where If.Other is used only when What=other. There's no way to enforce the only-if-another-attribute-is-set-to-other behaviour in a DTD, although an editing application could do so. However, what is suitable for scholarly markup is not necessary appropriate for the list of kooool sights wot me an' my mate saw wiv netscape, eh? Lee From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 13:46:16 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19452; Tue, 18 Jul 95 13:46:16 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA06479; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:32:33 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 13:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507182032.AA06479@www19.w3.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 13:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Franz X-Sender: snowhare@ns.Viet.NET To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 2446 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1206 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On Tue, 18 Jul 1995, Michael Johnson wrote: > >with a 60% market share. Most of the Web page designers that I work with, and I > >work with many, include Netscape extensions without thinking twice about it. > > Which just goes to show that there are a lot of damned idiots out there > designing web pages, but we knew that already. [...] > Yes, I'm being an idealist here. Right now, the web needs idealists, and it > needs them in large, highly vocal, numbers if we're to get the web back on > the track that it ought to be on. Let me cut to the chase: Write and release a full featured production HTML 3.0 browser for Windows, Macintosh and Unix (in order of market importance). Or quit whining that other people aren't spending their money they way you want them to. Is HTML 3.0 technically superior to N-HTML? Without a question. I am a great fan of standards. I also know when someone is playing King Canute. Netscapisms *WILL NOT* go away until equivalent functionality is in HTML 3.0 and in production browsers for Windows and Mac. All the debate about whether or not the extensions are good or bad is utterly moot. There are here. They are staying. That battle is already completely lost. New browsers are implementing Netscapisms. They are the *de facto* standard. The Microsoft color extensions to Netscape's extensions are sure to catch on like wildfire as well. How did this happen? Easy - they quit *talking* about standards to be implemented in some distant future and shipped product (no matter how badly thought out some the extension are). The HTML standards process risks becoming irrelevant. Not because the standards are bad - because the people developing them are too damn slow in closing and implementing them. It is 'committee-itis' at its worst. I have my doubts as to whether or not HTML 2.0 would be closed today (it *is* closed, right? Dan?) if Netscape hadn't kicked everyone in the shins. As for implementing HTML 3.0 - which version? The version that was talked about last week, or the version that will be talked about next week? Companies are not going to write browsers to support 3.0 features that are not STABLE. It cost real money to re-engineer. Especially after shipping. So close the damn thing. Write a killer HTML 3.0 browser. Kick Netscape and Microsoft's asses to hell and gone. Idealism is no substitute for shipping product. -- Benjamin Franz From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 14:53:39 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21473; Tue, 18 Jul 95 14:53:39 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA08653; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:38:21 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 17:33:50 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9507182138.AA08653@www19.w3.org> From: "Ian S. Graham" Message-Id: <199507182133.RAA15121@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 To: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 17:33:50 EDT Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <199507181530.LAA17200@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>; from "Paul Prescod" at Jul 18, 95 11:30 am Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Content-Length: 2100 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1209 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > > > Hmm. so something that is implemented, operational and popular is "hot air", > > while "still being defined" stylesheets are not??? > > It is important to stress that the concept of a style sheet is _not_ being > defined. Any vendor can implement style sheets whenever they feel like > it. Style sheets do not require changes to an HTML document that > render HTML documents incorrect. Extra attributes to the BODY tag _do_. > > Style sheets are the best way to change the presentation of an HTML document, > and have been since HTML 0. I have been using style sheets with HTML > documents for more than a year now. > > Paul Prescod > Perhaps a bad choice of words -- "implemented" would have been better. If someone releases a good, commercial-grade browser that supports stylesheets -- along with an easy-to-write stylesheet language -- then I am sure this will become the dominant mechanism for doing layout formatting. This has not happened, no doubt because inventing a stylesheet language and writing processing software is a trifle harder than adding a few lines to a tag processing engine. (I am assuming, by the absence of popular and inexpensive web tools that do rigorous SGML processing, that real SGMLized tools are not easy, or cheap, to develop). It also did not help (in hindsight, of course, where all things are obvious) that HTML 3 placed formatting information both in BODY attributes and stylesheets. For example, it seems both confusing and counterproductive to propose a BACKGROUND *attribute* to the BODY element, arguing that it is an interim solution until backgrounds are supported by stylesheets (that was at least one of the arguments), and to then not provide an alternative, non-stylesheet mechanism for controlling text colors. Better to have never invented BACKGROUND. Now we are stuck with it, and, to be perfectly frank, with TEXT, BGCOLOR, and so on. I have also used stylesheets (with arena), and they are very nice. But, I don't use/develop them for production pages, as almost no one else will see the effect. Ian From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 17:57:41 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26929; Tue, 18 Jul 95 17:57:41 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA00549; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:49:37 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:51:39 +0900 Resent-Message-Id: <9507190049.AA00549@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <9507190046.AA02778@isis.sp.isl.secom.co.jp> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:51:39 +0900 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp (Keith Rogers) X-Sender: kerog@192.168.232.16 Subject: In-line HTML files? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp X-Mailer: Eudora-JE(1.3.8-JE13) Content-Length: 800 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1211 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Is there some facility in HTML for automatically including another HTML file within a main HTML file, much like the IMG tag includes a graphics file? This would allow small sections of information which are changed regularly to be kept in a separate file while still being integrated into a basic document. The particular application I have in mind is for a home page for a running club. The locale of the run changes each week, and I want to make it easy to update the web page to include this information. Ideally, the club secretary should only have to make sure that a file with the location and date is updated each week. Sure you could do it with a regular hypertext link, but since the quantity of information is so small it seems better to integrate it into the main document. -Keith From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 18:06:21 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27057; Tue, 18 Jul 95 18:06:21 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA00915; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:00:14 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:53:08 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507190100.AA00915@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <199507190053.AA13042@mail.crl.com> To: www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@www10.w3.org, montulli@strumpet.mcom.com Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 References: <9507181243.ZM29294@strumpet.mcom.com> <199507181502.LAA09394@clark.net> In-Reply-To: <9507181243.ZM29294@strumpet.mcom.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:53:08 -0700 From: Joe English Content-Length: 2279 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1212 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Lou Montulli wrote: > If multiple vendors are supporting these BODY tags then they ^^^^ -- "attributes" > are obviously not vendor-specific. Perhaps they are just a > good idea that should be added to the HTML 3 spec? Perhaps; perhaps not. If you think they're good ideas, why not submit a formal proposal to the HTML working group? Heck, even an informal proposal would do; Eric Bina just sorta casually asked about background images and the BODY BACKGROUND attribute ended up in the draft spec as a result. BGCOLOR and TEXT sound like good ideas to me, except that TEXT should be named FGCOLOR. My intuition says that the LINK, VLINK, and ALINK attributes are bad ideas, since they presuppose a particular presentation model: (1) Imagine a browser that displays body text in black, unvisited links in red, and visited links in a shade of blue, fading from light blue to black depending on when the link was last visited. (2) Imagine a browser that does not use color to distinguish anchors at all, but displays an icon in the margin instead. Naturally, such browsers could and should just ignore the LINK, VLINK, and ALINK attributes. But if LINK, VLINK, and ALINK belong in the spec, then so do LINKICONPLACEMENT (for the second browser, to tell it whether to put the icon in the left margin or the right) and VISITEDANCHORCOLORDECAYFUNCTION (for the first browser, to tell it how to compute what color to use as a function of how long ago the link was last seen.) Naturaly, Netscape and Mosaic (and other browsers which use that processing model) could and should just ignore the LINKICONPLACEMENT and VISITEDANCHORCOLORDECAYFUNCTION attributes, but do these really belong in HTML to begin with? If they do not -- and I'm sure most will agree that they don't, as no popular browser actually works that way -- then neither do LINK, VLINK, or ALINK. Plus, the attribute names are all wrong. Then again, my intuition may be totally off. (I thought the BACKGROUND attribute was a good idea too, but now that it's been implemented and in widespread use, I've had to quit using Netscape altogether -- I have a greyscale X terminal; 'nuff said :-) --Joe English jenglish@crl.com From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 18:36:53 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27786; Tue, 18 Jul 95 18:36:53 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA01918; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:28:26 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 18:26:26 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507190128.AA01918@www19.w3.org> From: "Lou Montulli" Message-Id: <9507181826.ZM13482@strumpet.mcom.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 18:26:26 -0700 In-Reply-To: Joe English "Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3" (Jul 18, 5:53pm) References: <9507181243.ZM29294@strumpet.mcom.com> <199507181502.LAA09394@clark.net> <199507190053.AA13042@mail.crl.com> X-Face: 2%:,dh#NyL=h+${dpRhMgWq_:WU|hRg,gd:q08ah!sc~a^V?8x}:6YSw>)K1n"&>ebiBHx1H5#zr*6qoFw%K,:yyH,'D7^54~HcZ4%CEdVGu#GE3T5WMztPF1GIhXU\-vT2{u61n8cJzcY7SxCzRl'O-`f"93K.yFdPJXrG#|7R X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.0 26oct94 MediaMail) To: Joe English , www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 2800 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1213 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On Jul 18, 5:53pm, Joe English wrote: > Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 > > Lou Montulli wrote: > > > If multiple vendors are supporting these BODY tags then they > ^^^^ -- "attributes" > > are obviously not vendor-specific. Perhaps they are just a > > good idea that should be added to the HTML 3 spec? > > > Perhaps; perhaps not. If you think they're good ideas, why not > submit a formal proposal to the HTML working group? Heck, even an > informal proposal would do; Eric Bina just sorta casually asked about > background images and the BODY BACKGROUND attribute ended up in the > draft spec as a result. They have been. I came with a list of ideas to the last IETF and presented them to Dave Raggert and whoever else that would listen. And Eric has sent several Emails to this list about the necessity of having LINK, VLINK, and ALINK in cooperation with BACKGROUND. > > My intuition says that the LINK, VLINK, and ALINK attributes are > bad ideas, since they presuppose a particular presentation model: > > (1) Imagine a browser that displays body text in black, unvisited > links in red, and visited links in a shade of blue, fading from > light blue to black depending on when the link was last visited. The browser would obviously fade between the values given in LINK and VLINK. > (2) Imagine a browser that does not use color to distinguish anchors > at all, but displays an icon in the margin instead. > > Naturally, such browsers could and should just ignore the LINK, > VLINK, and ALINK attributes. But if LINK, VLINK, and ALINK > belong in the spec, then so do LINKICONPLACEMENT (for the second > browser, to tell it whether to put the icon in the left > margin or the right) and VISITEDANCHORCOLORDECAYFUNCTION (for > the first browser, to tell it how to compute what color to use > as a function of how long ago the link was last seen.) There is a big difference here. We implemented BODY BACKGROUND and found that it was impossible to use without TEXT, LINK and VLINK because you could use a background that caused the text and links to become unreadable. We therefore had no choice but to add the attributes to make backgrounds usable. > > Then again, my intuition may be totally off. (I thought > the BACKGROUND attribute was a good idea too, but now that > it's been implemented and in widespread use, I've had to quit > using Netscape altogether -- I have a greyscale X terminal; > 'nuff said :-) > Just tell netscape to always use your background image or color and ignore any set by the document. You can do that in the prefs or in your Xresources. :lou -- Lou Montulli http://www.mcom.com/people/montulli/ Netscape Communications Corp. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 18:53:52 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28157; Tue, 18 Jul 95 18:53:52 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02458; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:49:27 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:43:37 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507190149.AA02458@www19.w3.org> From: Mike Batchelor Message-Id: <199507190143.VAA12081@clark.net> Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:43:37 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-style@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <9507181243.ZM29294@strumpet.mcom.com> from "Lou Montulli" at Jul 18, 95 12:43:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 2954 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1214 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Lou Montulli once wrote... > > > > > I don't have a problem with NCSA implementing the Netscape > > attributes in the new WinMosaic. I have a problem with them documenting > > them as being part of HTML v3.0, when they clearly are not. NCSA is > > considered an authority by many people on things to do with the WWW. It's > > unfortunate enough that Netscape is disseminating mis-information to > > bolster its bottom line, at the expense of the Web as a whole. That NCSA > ^^^^^^^^^ > > is contributing to the trend of fragmenting the Web into vendor-specific > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > ghettos is doubly unfortunate. I just wrote them a note pointing out the > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > error, and kindly asking them to correct it to reflect the true status of > > the HTML v3 DTD. > > > If multiple vendors are supporting these BODY tags then they > are obviously not vendor-specific. Perhaps they are just a > good idea that should be added to the HTML 3 spec? > > :lou > -- > Lou Montulli http://www.mcom.com/people/montulli/ > Netscape Communications Corp. > Added to the HTML v3 spec? Netscape claims their extensions *are* the HTML v3 spec. "Netscape Navigator 1.1's new capabilities include: Advanced layout capabilities using HTML 3.0 tables and graphical backdrops. These capabilities allow more sophisticated page presentation, including multiple text columns and flexible image placement." [1] Netscape's table markups do not conform to the HTML v3 DTD. Nowhere in the DTD does it indicate that the border attribute may take a value for thickness, or anything else, for example. There are numerous other attributes that are nowhere to be found in the HTML 3.0 DTD, not to mention the "notorious"
      and tags. "Netscape Navigator's new HTML tags that enable features like tables and background images are based upon the HTML 3.0 proposal. Netscape Communications Corporation is an active participant in all Web-related standard bodies and is a charter Full Member of the W3 Consortium. Please read our discussion of Netscape's commitment to open standards, if you're interested in more information." [2] Open standards must be documented, so that others may implement them correctly. As a member of the W3 Consortium, Netscape must know that HTML is documented using the SGML Document Type Definition. Where is the DTD for the Netscape 1.1N tags? I refer you to "The Myth of Netscape and HTML 3.0" [3] for the rest of this line of discussion, and some more pointers to other points of view. [1] http://home.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease16.html [2] http://home.netscape.com/home/demo/1.1b1/index.html [3] http://www.iaf.nl/~abigail/HTML/Myth/myth.html -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 19:11:53 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28447; Tue, 18 Jul 95 19:11:53 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA02854; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:07:24 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:01:39 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507190207.AA02854@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <199507190201.WAA28670@beach.w3.org> To: kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp (Keith Rogers) Cc: alian@mit.edu Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Cc: Thomas Boutell Cc: HTP Writers Guild Subject: Re: In-line HTML files? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:51:39 +0900." <9507190046.AA02778@isis.sp.isl.secom.co.jp> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:01:39 -0400 From: "Daniel W. Connolly" Content-Length: 1039 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1215 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list In message <9507190046.AA02778@isis.sp.isl.secom.co.jp>, Keith Rogers writes: >Is there some facility in HTML for automatically including another HTML >file within >a main HTML file, much like the IMG tag includes a graphics file? This is a very frequently asked question. I hate to beg, but... would one of the knowledgeable and capable HTML book/intro/tutorial writers research this issue and submit an answer to the WWW FAQ maintainer? Currently, that would be Thomas Boutell Basically, the options are: existing technologies: server-side includes (see NCSA server doc) cpp/m4/text preprocessor of your choice possible developments: ... (we've got a student implementing this, by the way! Hi Alex!) Real SGML Entities (tm) Daniel W. Connolly "We believe in the interconnectedness of all things" Research Associate, MIT/W3C PGP: EDF8 A8E4 F3BB 0F3C FD1B 7BE0 716C FF21 http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/People/Connolly From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 20:18:43 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29654; Tue, 18 Jul 95 20:18:43 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA03313; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 23:09:03 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 23:04:36 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507190309.AA03313@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <199507190304.XAA28953@beach.w3.org> To: Ka-Ping Yee Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: Psychology and usefulness In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 1995 00:34:23 EDT." <199507170434.AAA09521@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 23:04:36 -0400 From: "Daniel W. Connolly" Content-Length: 1269 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1216 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list In message <199507170434.AAA09521@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, Ka-Ping Yee write s: > >You know, there's some very unfortunate human psychology happening >here. When HTML was designed, why did they have to make and > so much SHORTER than and ? I'll answer that by passing the buck: I borrowed the tag names directly from GNU TeXinfo. If I had it to do over again, there would only be three phrase-markup elements: , , and where ?? is b or something like it. They're short, almost meaningless worlets that mean, respectively, emphasized, machine-like, and strongly-emphasized. (pretty close to TeX's , , , though it also adds and a few others, as I recall...) When I added all those others (, , ...) I was overly influenced by my experience with technical documentation. HTML is a very broad, very shallow, generic SGML application. It captures common communications idioms, and should not go deeply into technical documentation strucures -- nor annual reports, nor advertising idioms, nor legal document structures, nor scholarly document structures, nor any of the other "vertical" applications toward which is being pulled. Dan p.s. Think Stylesheets[1] [1] http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Style/ From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 20:31:06 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29840; Tue, 18 Jul 95 20:31:06 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA03594; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 23:20:51 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:14:00 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507190320.AA03594@www19.w3.org> From: "Terry Allen" Message-Id: <9507182014.ZM5917@dmg.west.ora.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:14:00 -0700 In-Reply-To: "Daniel W. Connolly" "Re: In-line HTML files?" (Jul 18, 10:01pm) References: <199507190201.WAA28670@beach.w3.org> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.1 10apr95) To: "Daniel W. Connolly" , kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp (Keith Rogers), www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re: In-line HTML files? Cc: alian@mit.edu, Thomas Boutell , HTP Writers Guild Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 2379 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1218 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Under Dan's "possible developments" one might also list SUBDOC, generally thought of as evil---but it models what's desired here (arbitrary inclusion of anything anywhere). --- Forwarded mail from "Daniel W. Connolly" Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:01:39 -0400 To: kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp (Keith Rogers) Cc: alian@mit.edu Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Cc: Thomas Boutell Cc: HTP Writers Guild Subject: Re: In-line HTML files? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:51:39 +0900." <9507190046.AA02778@isis.sp.isl.secom.co.jp> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:01:39 -0400 From: "Daniel W. Connolly" Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1215 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list In message <9507190046.AA02778@isis.sp.isl.secom.co.jp>, Keith Rogers writes: >Is there some facility in HTML for automatically including another HTML >file within >a main HTML file, much like the IMG tag includes a graphics file? This is a very frequently asked question. I hate to beg, but... would one of the knowledgeable and capable HTML book/intro/tutorial writers research this issue and submit an answer to the WWW FAQ maintainer? Currently, that would be Thomas Boutell Basically, the options are: existing technologies: server-side includes (see NCSA server doc) cpp/m4/text preprocessor of your choice possible developments: ... (we've got a student implementing this, by the way! Hi Alex!) Real SGML Entities (tm) Daniel W. Connolly "We believe in the interconnectedness of all things" Research Associate, MIT/W3C PGP: EDF8 A8E4 F3BB 0F3C FD1B 7BE0 716C FF21 http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/People/Connolly --- End of forwarded mail from "Daniel W. Connolly" -- Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Editor, Digital Media Group 101 Morris St. Sebastopol, Calif., 95472 A Davenport Group sponsor. For information on the Davenport Group see ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/README.html or http://www.ora.com/davenport/README.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Tue Jul 18 23:50:06 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03076; Tue, 18 Jul 95 23:50:06 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA05189; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 02:41:37 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 07:36:49 +0100 Resent-Message-Id: <9507190641.AA05189@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: X-Sender: cm1906@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 07:36:49 +0100 To: rcolman@synsis.com From: jw@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk (Jon Wallis) Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org Content-Length: 1051 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1219 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >Wow, are you guys out of touch with reality or what! > >In case you hadn't noticed, Netscape is running on almost 5 million desktops >with a 60% market share. Most of the Web page designers that I work with, and I >work with many, include Netscape extensions without thinking twice about it. > >In this case, the tail is definitely waving the dog. Those who ignore dominant >market share in an increasingly commercial WWW are bound to be swept right off >the playing field. If Netscape designs the playing field, expect it to have incompatible grass that changes colour 15 times before you've got onto the pitch. Oh, and you've got to use a square ball (although it might have to be hemispherical in the next release, if they think that's cooler). regards, -- Jon Wallis Senior Lecturer in Information Systems Engineering School of Computing & I.T., University of Wolverhampton, UK - WV1 1SB Tel/Fax +44 (0)1902 322203/322680 http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1906 ------------Opinions are mine, not those of my employer-------------- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 00:01:01 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03275; Wed, 19 Jul 95 00:01:01 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AB05451; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 02:52:56 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 02:24:55 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507190652.AB05451@www19.w3.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 02:24:55 -0400 From: Ka-Ping Yee Subject: HTML 3: Too many tags! (was re: Psychology and usefulness) To: "Daniel W. Connolly" Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <199507190304.XAA28953@beach.w3.org> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 3843 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1220 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list On Tue, 18 Jul 1995, Daniel W. Connolly wrote: > In message <199507170434.AAA09521@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, > Ka-Ping Yee writes: > > > >You know, there's some very unfortunate human psychology happening > >here. When HTML was designed, why did they have to make and > > so much SHORTER than and ? > > I'll answer that by passing the buck: I borrowed the tag names > directly from GNU TeXinfo. > > If I had it to do over again, there would only be three phrase-markup > elements: , , and where ?? is b or something like it. > They're short, almost meaningless worlets that mean, respectively, > emphasized, machine-like, and strongly-emphasized. (pretty close to > TeX's , , , though it also adds and a few others, as I > recall...) That would have been ideal, i agree. > HTML is a very broad, very shallow, generic SGML application. It > captures common communications idioms, and should not go deeply into > technical documentation strucures -- nor annual reports, nor > advertising idioms, nor legal document structures, nor scholarly > document structures, nor any of the other "vertical" applications > toward which is being pulled. I agree with this statement *absolutely*. It is with the same mindset that i look at the list of "Information Type Elements" [1] in the HTML 3 proposed spec [2] and gasp in horror. There are *way* too many of them! * CODE and KBD are really no more than instances of SAMP, and are much to specific in application. * AU and PERSON are too similar to merit separate elements; i think PERSON is a good idea, but i'd think more of adding attributes to PERSON like ROLE="author", EMAIL="...", HREF="...", and so on. (I lament that the "mailto:" URL is used currently in many cases where the real meaning is to provide information about a person.) But introducing would be a mistake, for it invites , , , , , ... * ACRONYM and ABBREV are also far too similar -- though in my opinion, marking up ACRONYM and ABBREV when you already have DFN is about as useful as marking up VERB and NOUN. * INS and DEL are two prime examples of highly-specific tags oriented at vertical applications (in this case legalese). I'd just as soon get rid of ALL of the above tags, except for PERSON. I really do not see the need. Probably DFN would be more useful if replaced by something less specific, like TERM, to indicate merely that a term needs defining (hinting to make it look-up-able). and
      are identical in meaning. They should be the same tag. Whether a quotation is presented embedded or blocked out can be specified in an attribute. I'm also frightened at the way the list of "Font Style Elements" [3] is growing. Though i can see a necessity for and in cases where they are essential to the meaning, the new , , , and are *strictly* presentation tags, and don't really belong in HTML. As per the discussion above on psychology and usability, the smallness and apparent convenience of , , and in relation to more useful tags like continues to have me worried. [1] http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/logical.html [2] http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/CoverPage.html [3] http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/emphasis.html Ping (Ka-Ping Yee): 2B Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada kryee@csclub.uwaterloo.ca | 62A Churchill St, Waterloo N2L 2X2, 519 886-3947 CWSF 89, 90, 92; LIYSF 90, 91; Shad Valley 92; DOE 93; IMO 91, 93; ACMIPC 94 :: Skuld :: Tendou Akane :: Belldandy :: Ayukawa Madoka :: Hayakawa Moemi :: New! Yeah, i finally made a home page. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 00:12:28 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03502; Wed, 19 Jul 95 00:12:28 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA05565; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 03:03:20 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 02:49:10 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507190703.AA05565@www19.w3.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 02:49:10 -0400 From: Ka-Ping Yee Subject: Re: implies

      ? To: "Daniel W. Connolly" Cc: Mike Meyer , www-html@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <199507131625.MAA07293@beach.w3.org> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 3175 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1221 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Ka-Ping Yee wrote: >Understood. But this doesn't mean that functionality should be >*removed* from FIG. It just seems very strange to me that this extra >limitation exist, purely as a limitation that to me yields no observable >advantage. Other people have pointed out the problems with the content of when it is allowed to be arbitrarily embedded in other places. I hadn't realized this when i wrote the original message, and now understand that it can't work that way. Daniel W. Connolly wrote: > Hmm... my view is that there is functionality (alternate-media > presentation) missing from , not missing from (the > ability to display a fig in a para). That IMG is missing functionality (and also is misnamed...) is pretty clear to me... it's a shame. Ka-Ping Yee wrote: >But this does not mean we should remove the ability of an author to >*suggest* where a can appear. [...] >My point is that it often makes more sense for a figure to relate to >the text (not the same as being incorporated into the text like an IMG) >than to stand on its own. > During the white-board discussion that Dave and I had, we discussed > this sort of thing, including the way FrameMaker allows you to > align figures all sorts of fancy ways with respect to the paragraph > in which they're anchored. > > We considered the possibility of expressing the above situation as: > >

      The bond angle between the two oxygen-hydrogen > bonds in water is slightly larger than that > between two carbon-hydrogen bonds in methane > (see figure 1). This > is due to the two extra pairs of free electrons around the > oxygen atom, which take up more space than the bound > pairs.

      > > > figure 1 shows models of CO2 and H2O molecules > > > This way, the content models aren't changed: is still a > peer of

      . But the element allows the author to suggest > where the figure should be anchored in the paragraph. > > Do you think that would work? That's a great solution! It still communicates the connection between the figure and the text, while avoiding problems with content. Moreover, it's actually *better* than what i had in mind: it's better to describe this connection with a real REFerence, rather than hint at it by hoping the figure is displayed in the paragraph. It has the unusual side-effect that it gives people the ability to make the substitute text for a FIG appear anywhere they like (perhaps nowhere near the figure at all). There is potential for abuse here i suppose, but i think that this ability is probably necessary. It likely wouldn't be too hard to imagine a case where it was. I'm impressed. ^_^ Ping (Ka-Ping Yee): 2B Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada kryee@csclub.uwaterloo.ca | 62A Churchill St, Waterloo N2L 2X2, 519 886-3947 CWSF 89, 90, 92; LIYSF 90, 91; Shad Valley 92; DOE 93; IMO 91, 93; ACMIPC 94 :: Skuld :: Tendou Akane :: Belldandy :: Ayukawa Madoka :: Hayakawa Moemi :: New! Yeah, i finally made a home page. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 02:23:36 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05704; Wed, 19 Jul 95 02:23:36 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA07107; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 05:16:14 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:15:01 +0100 Resent-Message-Id: <9507190916.AA07107@www19.w3.org> From: "Grzesiek Staniak" Organization: Marie Curie-Sklodowska University To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:15:01 +0100 Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.1 (R1a) Message-Id: <149E9D611E@golem.umcs.lublin.pl> Content-Length: 1284 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1222 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list ...>Wow, are you guys out of touch with reality or what! ...>In case you hadn't noticed, Netscape is running on almost 5 ...>million desktops with a 60% market share. Most of the Web ...>page designers that I work with, and I work with many, ...>include Netscape extensions without thinking twice about it. ...>In this case, the tail is definitely waving the dog. Those ...>who ignore dominant market share in an increasingly commercial ...>WWW are bound to be swept right off the playing field. Hm. There are still those for whose Internet is a useful tool, not a playing field in a dollar-winning game. You may be right as long as you talk about users whose sole ambition is to create "a k00l homepage", but what about those who use the web seriously? With SGML as an ever-expanding standard of electronic information exchange anybody who wants to take advantage of available functionality has no choice but to become a purist (and I mean industry, not personal "k00l pages"). My guess: in a few years the web will be 90% colourful Netscape-induced trash (worthless HTML), and 10% sites that will _really_ use the net... And then I hope people will start notice how much they've missed chasing fancy backgrounds. -- Grzesiek Staniak From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 02:50:57 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06085; Wed, 19 Jul 95 02:50:57 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA07362; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 05:42:59 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 10:41:10 BST Resent-Message-Id: <9507190942.AA07362@www19.w3.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 10:41:10 BST From: Steve Nisbet Message-Id: <9507190941.AA29667@patsy.doc.aca.mmu.ac.uk> To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: e: Colour: NCSA Mosaic / Netscape Content-Length: 6567 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1223 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Am I alone in being sick of the browser wars entering into discussions here? I see it on enough newsgroups and on enough pages thoughout the world as it is. Lets be honest for a change, these newsgroups and mailing lists are about the World Wide Web, the Internet, the presentation of information to a wider audience than the internet previously allowed because of command line symantics and old fashioned hostile interfaces. We will soon be showing these things to children in developing countries, they are not interested in formats, in whats best, they want to see what you all look like and what the world looks like. They can do this perfectly well with HTML2.0 as it stands. We wont be worried about the browser we will take over there, it wont appear as a God on our agenda, we are teaching about the internet and what it does, and about how you can travel it with the WEB. We want to show them what is possible. The web is about educating people and showing them things, its about talking to each other. For once we dont have to worry about getting the language right, we dont all have to worry about which sort of rs232 connector to use to plug in, that is irrelevent, its history. Or so the hype goes. The hype also seems to be plugging people to death about which products they should use. I get sick of hearing TV shows and twee magazines ranting about the newest thing in the universe to play with. I attend conferences designed for businesses (in a technical capacity)with an aim in mind of educating them as to the possibilities of the internet and the web. I frequently find these flaws: 1) The perception that the Internet IS the WEB 2) a) The perception that Netscape is the WEB, is the Internet, is the one true piece of software, will do it all for you etc b) The perception that Netscape is HTML, that the extensions are non-extensions i.e - the real thing. Just think about the word extension and what it means!! 3) That everyone else sees things this way 4) That business should control the internet (I kid you not, I have a quote from a number of speakers) 5) That this is all a brand new and frightening creature with almighty powers, that it will cure baldness, slam your taking through the roof, increase your corporate profile and make you look 'cool'. This is all hype, its all incorrect, and its being propogated all over the world be people who have vested interests, short term goals and absolutely do not have the best interests of this community at heart. It is the cult of self interest married to the cult of narrow-mindedness. I have not found any basis for the claim that netscape have 60% of the market anywhere except from netscapes own touts. What I have seen is a dedicated fan club flogging the product for all it is worth to people who are net-iliterate but eager to do things right, in the context of points 1-5 above. I hear junk about netscapes extensions being HTML 3 - wrong, I hear junk about the highest hitting sites are only those who use such extensions - wrong. Dont get me wrong, Im not a netscape hater, I dont doggedly adhere to mosaic - the oft quoted only rival to netscape. But I tire of having these childish wars on forums designed to further understanding and cooperation on the WEB. Surely it is the information purveyed and the possibilities that are paramount! Not one product in many. For my defense my creds are that I have been in the web design business for 2 years, and clearly remember when it was all academic and research based. Its important to point this out to businesses, especially those who think that they ought to 'control' the internet, get it away from those researchers hands. Most of the work being propogated and pursued with an aim to extending the features available to us is still performed by these institutions, most of whom dont have the time to be worrying about which browser sells most, they are after all interested in the concept of the web itself and the best means of displaying information for all. On our site we use a number of browsers, Mosaic (UNIX, PC and MAC), Netscape (UNIX & PC), Arena 0.96 & 0.97, Lynx and cern line browsers, and several other less well known ones. I design pages for business, organisations and academic alike, and only if a 'customer' requires and is absolutely sure they want a specific set of extensions, thereby in my opinion limiting their viewable market, then I will design with those extensions - tailor made ! Some companies - this is fine, they dont want anything more than a specific market, they are not too fussed about how their pages will appear to the larger non-specific market. I am always at pains to point out that the extensions drift away form the HTML 3.0 draft spec, and that when this becomes the definate article, companies who produce their own private versions of HTML are going to lose out. For some time now I have been under the impression that Netcom are trying to drive the web their way, they dont want to adhere to anyone elses point of view, they dont want in on the new drafts, if you think this is crap - go see the handbook on extensions and read the comments. Why is this? Open YOUR eyes rcolman , this is a company product, people will pay money for it, people will be dictated to, and the company will benefit by its captive audience. This is not the WEB, it is not expression of information to all, its not providing information to as big an audience as you can. Netscape and mosaic are merely tools, they are not the web, they are not HTML. Dont flame me for pointing this out, but if you and your colleagues wont even think twice before limiting your audience, then maybe you should. Its only a tool, and one tool in many used to purvey the information. Id like to point out that the millions of browser users, most of whom came online since last september (if figures Ive seen are correct) do not actually run sites, they are swept along in a hype of 'this is all new and heres what you shold use'- often purveyed by the clueless (TV) and interested parties. Instead of using these channels to join in the misinformation revolution, use them for some constructive talk please. Apologies for spooling mistooks, typos, flames, and anyone who might take offense, Steve Nisbet Web Admin Department of Computing, MMU http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/ (This ones not 'netscape' enhanced, but it has some pages sub to it that are) "The first WWW should ne 'When, Where and Why" The usual blurb about these being my opinions and not those of my company applies. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 04:57:49 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07382; Wed, 19 Jul 95 04:57:49 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA09497; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 07:50:06 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 07:30:03 EDT Resent-Message-Id: <9507191150.AA09497@www19.w3.org> Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 References: Message-Id: From: michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson) To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 07:30:03 EDT Content-Length: 2673 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1226 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >Let me cut to the chase: > > >Write and release a full featured production HTML 3.0 browser for >Windows, Macintosh and Unix (in order of market importance). Or quit >whining that other people aren't spending their money they way you >want them to. See http://mordor.relay.com/Traveler/ and then you can think about the advisability of posting unproductive ranting to a working discussion group. I'm not pissed off at Netscape because they have market share. I'm pissed off at Netscape because I browse the web with my syntax checking browser and encounter large numbers of lousy "Netscape enhanced" and just plain broken pages, and it's largely their fault. My personal opinion, from seeing what Netscape has done and from reading an occasional interview, is that Marc Andresson (sp?) is a very bright individual who hasn't developed an appropriate level of professional maturity, as evidenced by his myopic solutions to short term problems and apparent total lack of regard for the long term viability of the web. >Netscapisms *WILL NOT* go away until equivalent functionality is >in HTML 3.0 and in production browsers for Windows and Mac. All >the debate about whether or not the extensions are good or bad is utterly >moot. There are here. They are staying. That battle is already >completely lost. New browsers are implementing Netscapisms. They are the >*de facto* standard. The Microsoft color extensions to Netscape's >extensions are sure to catch on like wildfire as well. If I hear the oxymoron "de-facto standard" one more time I may come visit you and throw up on your desk. This is a perfect example of why everyone who is serious about the future of the web should be really pissed off at Netscape. They've fostered an environment that makes certain factions think it's OK to just throw together any set of "extensions" to HTML that they feel like. Never mind that HTML is supposed to be the glue that holds the web together, and never mind that they should have learned their lesson from Unix ("Unix is not Unix"). >As for implementing HTML 3.0 - which version? The version that was talked >about last week, or the version that will be talked about next week? >Companies are not going to write browsers to support 3.0 features that >are not STABLE. It cost real money to re-engineer. Especially after shipping. Many of the features of HTML 3.0 are stable. Certainly stable enough that they can be implemented with the expectation that there will be little change before the standard is finalized. It doesn't take much work to, for example, change your internal DTD to allow IMG inside of a FIG. Michael Johnson Relay Technology, Inc. From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 05:08:42 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07521; Wed, 19 Jul 95 05:08:42 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA06734; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:38:24 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 13:33:35 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9507182038.AA06734@www19.w3.org> From: "Terry Allen" Message-Id: <9507181333.ZM29142@dmg.west.ora.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 13:33:35 -0700 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.1 10apr95) To: www-html@www10.w3.org Subject: Re color and processing instructions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 948 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1208 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Pris Sears asks: > Is there anything useful this group can do to rein in Netscape-isms? Yes. Beat on browser developers to support processing instructions (use them if they understand them, ignore them if not). PIs are an SGML-compliant way to extend functionality that does not require modification of the DTD. If PIs are supported, new tags are not required, e.g.: blinking text As HTML 2.0 is supposed to be an SGML application, browsers that do not handle PIs properly (that is, they display the PIs as though they were text) are not in compliance with the HTML 2.0 spec. Regards, -- Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Editor, Digital Media Group 101 Morris St. Sebastopol, Calif., 95472 A Davenport Group sponsor. For information on the Davenport Group see ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/README.html or http://www.ora.com/davenport/README.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 05:30:34 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07903; Wed, 19 Jul 95 05:30:34 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA10497; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 08:21:52 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 08:20:47 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507191221.AA10497@www19.w3.org> From: Mike Batchelor Message-Id: <199507191220.IAA19700@clark.net> Subject: Re: HTML 3: Too many tags! (was re: Psychology and usefulness) To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 08:20:47 -0400 (EDT) Cc: www-style@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: <30A90C339F@forest.estate.warwick.ac.uk> from "Chris Tilbury" at Jul 19, 95 12:03:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1327 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1227 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Chris Tilbury once wrote... > > On 19 Jul 95 at 2:24, Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > > > There are *way* too many of them! > > [snip] > > > > and

      are identical in meaning. They should be the > > same tag. Whether a quotation is presented embedded or blocked out > > can be specified in an attribute. > > Hmm - I don't think it can. The content model of is %text[1], > whereas the content model of
      is %body.content, %flow, > and %block[2]. I don't think you can alter the content model of an > element using an attribute, but I may be wrong? Well, is a text level markup, like and . It is suggested that text within be rendered enclosed with quotation marks, or other punctuation appropriate to the language. is used to indicate a quoted passage of text is enclosed. The two are quite different, and I think should stay in, so that on your German browser, the quotations would be rendered as the double-greater-than/double-less-than marks (what are those called) and on English browsers, as "". I agree that the other simplifications should take place. "Hey, I'm not using this tag anywhere, let me assign some styles to it, it's shorter than typing ." -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/ %%%%%% From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 06:26:35 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09211; Wed, 19 Jul 95 06:26:35 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA12170; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:07:48 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 08:06:57 -0500 (CDT) Resent-Message-Id: <9507191307.AA12170@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <199507191306.AA025369217@lulu.acns.nwu.edu> Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 To: www-html@www10.w3.org Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 08:06:57 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <9507181907.AA25230@www10.w3.org> from "Pris Sears" at Jul 18, 95 03:07:55 pm Reply-To: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde) From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1875 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1228 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list People who think that standards are not important or that we can get by with collections of hacks as "defacto standards" would be well to consider the recent history of gopher and gopher+. As well as having glitzy graphic features, I think the web has had a technical advantage in the form of protocols that have made more use of existing standards and new standization that has unified various features of the existing net. The reason our institution has addopted first gopher and then www was that they offered a cross-platform standard for electronic publishing. (Unfortunately gopher+ was so seriously hacked that it was pretty hard for third-parties to develop effective implementations.) One development team no matter how brash, daring, and inspired can't be the sole basis for a cross-platform standard. I'm not a major figure in the standards development process, but I have been on the working group lists for a bit now. I'd feel better about Netscape et. al. if they did something to introduce things to the IETF working group and get comments before unleashing them on thousands of users or at least before taking them out of beta. Talking to people at conferences doesn't mean as much to me as mailing proposals to the working group mailing list and particiating in the discussions there. As it is, the working group is presented with a choice of standardizing on Netscape's ideas or ignoring them: the large base of users makes it harder to make constructive changes after they have been let loose. In the same vein, I wish Netscape paid more attention to the SGML issues... getting these right is important for standardization. I think the entry of new web browsers from providers like AOL is going to make evident the problems in relying on "defacto standards" and ad-hoc "extensions". -- Albert Lunde Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 06:30:56 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09328; Wed, 19 Jul 95 06:30:56 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA12351; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:16:46 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:17:25 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507191316.AA12351@www19.w3.org> X-Sender: krettig@montana.ctt.bellcore.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:17:25 -0400 To: www-html@www10.w3.org From: KRettig@ctt.bellcore.com (Keith Rettig) Subject: Re: Proposal For Outline Markup Scheme For HTML 3.0 Cc: simonb@ctt.bellcore.com Content-Length: 6202 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1229 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Chris Tilbury provided an excellent alternative to our proposal for an outline markup scheme. With two minor alterations we fully support his modified proposal. It is much simpler to implement and has a lesser impact on existing browsers than our original proposal. While reading Chris' proposal, please keep in mind the following. The presence of the tag could obviate the need for IH as proposed by Chris. Chris wrote... [Incidently, does anyone know why we've got to provide a caption in a list, and
      blah blah
      to provide a caption on everything else? Yes, I know is supposed to put the header at the top of the list, but isn't this just a presentation issue?] Our response to that would be to suggest that be used for the purposes that we have requested and that be used as the current does. The LH's of nested lists can serve in place of IH. Our other modification would be to allow the specification of a level to which expansion should initially occur by providing a value for OUTLINED, e.g. OUTLINED=2 would expand to the second level. We feel that relegating outline expansion levels to a style sheet could result in an uneccessary proliferation of style sheets. Also, the presence of an OUTLINED value would serve two purposes; specification of a level, and the specification of the list into collapsable form. The beauty of Chris' approach is that any browsers which do not support accordian/outline text would simply display the outline as fully expanded. As would OUTLINED=0. Finally, we once again propose that the specification indicate that implementers should provide for automatic outline expansion when an attempt is made to jump to an "unexpanded" anchor. So, how about it? Can we add just one attribute to the existing HTML 3.0 markup for lists? Please! :-) What is our next step for requesting this feature? Should we re-write our proposal using this modified design? Chris' redesign...[snip] So, how can we achieve this? Well, how about something like this.
      1. This is the top outline level

        This is the text below the header. In an Ordered or Unordered Outlined list this would not be displayed until the header was expanded. The enclosing of this text in the <P> element would ensure that the text would hopefully be displayed beneath the header on older, legacy browsers

        • This is the next outline level

          This is the text describing it; again, note that since the content.model of the <LI> element is flow and flow includes lists, one can include multiple levels of outline without extra tags being required.

      Which could display as [-] 1. This is the top outline level This is the text below the header. In an Ordered or Unordered list this would not be displayed until the header was expanded. The enclosing of this text in the

      element would ensure that the text would hopefully be displayed beneath the header on older, legacy browsers. [+] * This is the next outline level on an "intelligent" browser, as 1. This is the top outline level This is the text below the header. In an Ordered or Unordered list this would not be displayed until the header was expanded. The enclosing of this text in the

      element would ensure that the text would hopefully be displayed beneath the header on older, legacy browsers. * This is the next outline level This is the text describing it; again, note that since the content.model, of the

    1. element is flow and flow includes lists, one can include multiple levels of outline without extra tags being required. on a less intelligent one. Compared with the proposed scheme, this requires 1 additional element, , for Item Header: IH (Item Header) Permitted Context: Immediately following LI Content Model: %text A single modification to the LI specification[2], which should not affect the rendering of existing lists in any way whatsoever: LI (List Item) Permitted Context: UL or OL Content Model: Optional Item Header (IH), followed by %flow And the addition of a single attribute to the OL[3] & UL[4] specifications OUTLINED The presence of this attribute indicates to the user agent that this is an "outline" list. Outline lists should be rendered as an expandable/collapsable list, with the initial view of each
    2. being simply the Item Header (IH) if present; otherwise, the specific item should be non-expandable. User Agents should provide an appropriate mechanism for expanding or contracting each LI to display it's full content - in the case of visual browsers, this could be by clicking on the numbering or dingbat identifying the list item (which can be specified in
    3. using the SRC or DINGBBAT attributes). Personally, this is the absolute limit which I would feel could be encompassed within the markup without encroaching on completely presentational issues (which I think all of this is, anyhow). Anything further, including indicating which levels should be expanded initially, and which shouldn't, should live in stylesheets. References: [1] [2] [3] [4] Regards, Chris -- Chris Tilbury, Estates Office, University of Warwick, UK, CV4 7AL Tel: +44 1203 523523 x2665 Fax: +44 1203 524444 MIME mail welcomed mailto:Chris.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk [cut] Keith Rettig (krettig@ctt.bellcore.com) Simon Blackwell (simonb@ctt.bellcore.com) Keith Rettig Do Something! \\\\ KRettig@ctt.bellcore.com (@ @) ------------------------------------------------ooO-( )-Ooo----- From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 06:36:59 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09463; Wed, 19 Jul 95 06:36:59 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA12612; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:27:14 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:22:53 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <9507191327.AA12612@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <01BA55B9.413038E0@ip194.new-york2.ny.interramp.com> From: Steve Graham To: "'Mike Batchelor'" Cc: "'HTML Mailing List (SMTP)'" Subject: RE: HTML 3: Too many tags! (was re: Psychology and usefulness) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:22:53 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 989 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1230 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list >>Well, is a text level markup, like and . It is suggested = that >>text within be rendered enclosed with quotation marks, or = other >>punctuation appropriate to the language. is used to indicate a >>quoted passage of text is enclosed. The two are quite different, and = I >>think should stay in, so that on your German browser, the = quotations >>would be rendered as the double-greater-than/double-less-than marks = (what are those called) and on >>English browsers, as "". 1, They are called "Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark" and = "Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark" 2, Moreover, there's no agreement on which is the "opening" or "closing" = mark ... not even in the same language. (and the ISO definition is no = help) In Germany, common usage is =BBIch liebe Bier=AB and in Switzerland, = it's =ABIch liebe Bier=BB=20 (I make no value judgment as the relative quality of the brew itself) Steve Graham The Associated Press From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 06:42:26 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09628; Wed, 19 Jul 95 06:42:26 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA05450; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 15:54:06 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 14:43:00 CDT Resent-Message-Id: <9507181954.AA05450@www19.w3.org> From: "Watkins, Dan W." To: "'HTML Mailing List'" Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 14:43:00 CDT Message-Id: <300C0FE7@msmailgw.nielsen.com> Encoding: 115 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Content-Length: 4433 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1204 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list > Which just goes to show that there are a lot of damned idiots out there > designing web pages, but we knew that already. This may be a little harsh, but o.k. Remember that HTML was meant to provide the ability to design Web pages to non-technical people. > The problem with the Netscape "extensions" is that they are poorly designed, > and very shortsighted. In the long run, Netscape has done the web a great > disservice by trying to turn what started out as a great tool into their > private commercial enterprise. Building a better browser or server is a fine > and noble goal, but it should be done while paying attention to standards. Totally agreed. > The standards that are being designed (HTML 3.0, style sheets, sHTTP and so > on) are without exception better solutions than what Netscape came up with. > So now, on top of getting these standards finished and implemented by the > larger web community, we have the problem of controlling the damage done by > Netscape. Absolutely. But the question now is: "can a new browser afford to NOT support Netscape extensions?". > Netscape didn't have to do this; for example, their addition of JPEG image > support was perfectly reasonable, given that HTML does not specify what > format images are to be in and that JPEG is the industry standard for photo- > graphic image encoding. Their bookmarks, their highly configurable preferences > view, their Postscript printing support, and other features, should have been > enough to get them the market they wanted. They could then participate (and I > do mean participate, not attempt to dictate) in the development of standards > such as HTML 3.0 and sHTTP, implement these early, and still have an edge over > their competitors. I agree with this also. I think Netscape is becoming a "Microsoft of the Web", in that they *expect* "features" they introduce to become ad-hoc standards. > If they wanted to do something really useful for web page authors, they'd have > made Netscape Navigator with an authoring mode that would help authors to > write > syntactically correct HTML. Instead, they marketed a browser that ignores > blatant syntax errors and thus encourages people to write bad HTML. The > problem was bad enough with just Mosaic to worry about, but at least the > Mosaic team didn't go hog wild adding new tags. They just neglected to put in > any kind of syntax checking, which still led to lots of bad pages. That may be, but the HTML 3.0 proposal does make reference to "being liberal in what you accept and strict in what you generate". Again, many Web authors are non-technical and may not understand things like DTD's. Also, there is a lot of competition right now in Web authoring tools (whether or not they generate syntactically correct HTML is open to debate) and it might be bad to have Netscape throw their hats into this ring. > Netscape has been operating in a very myopic mode that can't see past the end > of their profit margin, and has done great damage to the web thereby. > Just because they (apparently) have 60% of the market share is not a > recommendation for the Netscape "extensions". Rather, the fact that they > have this large a share and continue to operate in such an irresponsible mode > is a condemnation of Netscape as a member of the web community. If your web > authoring buddies are serious about ensuring the future of the web, they > should avoid using Netscape "extensions" and instead try to encourage Netscape > to drop their "extensions" in favor of adherence to standards. You have to give credit to Netscape for dropping their acceptance of multiple tags that caused some Web authors to use this "feature" to provide a "fade in" effect when a page is first opened. But, then again, they didn't drop the backgound color attribute from the body tag. > Yes, I'm being an idealist here. Right now, the web needs idealists, and it > needs them in large, highly vocal, numbers if we're to get the web back on > the track that it ought to be on. > Michael Johnson > Relay Technology, Inc. For the most part I agree with you, and have been saying these types of things for weeks. For more, see http://www.interaccess.com/users/dwatkins/dpibrows.html . D. Watkins Technical Lead Watkins Computer Services http://www.interaccess.com/users/dwatkins/watkcomp.html DPI http://www.interaccess.com/users/dwatkins/dpi.html From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 07:13:54 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10585; Wed, 19 Jul 95 07:13:54 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA13237; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 10:00:32 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 08:58:54 -0500 Resent-Message-Id: <9507191400.AA13237@www19.w3.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 08:58:54 -0500 From: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) Message-Id: <199507191358.IAA12577@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com> To: mikebat@clark.net Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@www10.w3.org In-Reply-To: Mike Batchelor's message of Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:43:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3 Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1963 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1232 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list From: Mike Batchelor | | Netscape's table markups do not conform to the HTML v3 DTD. Nowhere in | the DTD does it indicate that the border attribute may take a value for | thickness, or anything else, for example. There are numerous other | attributes that are nowhere to be found in the HTML 3.0 DTD, not to | mention the "notorious"
      and tags. --- Until it is approved, there is no HTML 3.0 DTD, there are only proposals. Since the common model for software standards is to standardize existing practice, there can be no new standards unless people develop new practice for standards groups to later adopt. Especially in a rapidly developing area like HTML, any vendor who is well-tuned to her customers is going to need to extend the standard to meet specific market needs. I assume the Netscape people are participating in the specification of the next version of the standard. I have no doubt that when the standard is adapted, Netscape will render conforming tables correctly and that they will still have extensions providing additional features that their customers like. Since a great fraction of the net has voted with their dollars and their downloads to say that Netscape meets their needs better than other browsers, it would be pretty foolish for Netscape to modify their browser in a way that made it support fewer of their customers' needs. In the meantime, "supporting HTML3" tables is an untestable assertion useful only as a statement of intent. I have seen a draft of HTML3 that seems to fall within the set of tables that Netscape can render correctly. The latest draft has added some wrinkles (header/body distinction) that they don't support. That's the way it is in the world of developing standards. scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com From www-html-request@www10.w3.org Wed Jul 19 09:09:49 1995 Return-Path: Received: from www19.w3.org by eitech.eit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14658; Wed, 19 Jul 95 09:09:49 PDT Received: by www19.w3.org (5.0/NSCS-1.0S) id AA16225; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 12:01:09 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 10:00:07 -0600 Resent-Message-Id: <9507191601.AA16225@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <199507191600.KAA14546@gray.nmt.edu> From: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 10:00:07 -0600 In-Reply-To: KRettig@ctt.bellcore.com (Keith Rettig) "Re: Proposal For Outline Markup Scheme For HTML 3.0" (Jul 19, 9:17am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: KRettig@ctt.bellcore.com (Keith Rettig) Subject: Re: Proposal For Outline Markup Scheme For HTML 3.0 Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@www10.w3.org Content-Length: 2219 Resent-From: www-html@www10.w3.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1233 X-Loop: www-html@mail.w3.org Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Resent-Sender: www-html-request@www10.w3.org Precedence: list Outline-style lists would seem to me to be entirely a presentation issue. For example, collapsed lists might be specified like this: Collapsed Outline Demo tag... i.e.,