Call For Discussion on HTML/HTML+ design

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Background

The World Wide Web Initiative: The Project

http://i= nfo.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

People involved in the WorldWideWeb project

http://info.= cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/People.html

Current (Published Normative) Specs

IETF draft spec of text/html content-type

ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt<= /A>

Remote file 15.254.100.100/pub/htmlplus.dtd.txt

ftp://15.254.100= .100/pub/htmlplus.dtd.txt

Current (Informative Changing) specs

HyperText Mark-up Language

http:= //info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html

How to write HTML files

http://curia.ucc= .ie/info/net/htmldoc.html

Meetings

WWW-TEI Meeting 19-20th November 1993

http:/= /itdsrv1.ul.ie/Research/WWW/cork_tei_www.html

Discussion

WWW Talk hypertext archive

htt= p://gummo.stanford.edu/html/hypermail/archives.html

comp.text.sgml index

wais://ifi.uio.no/comp.te= xt.sgml

Remote file ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.tx= t

ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt<= /A>

Re: WWW and Hytime (was Explicit Linking is Impossible)

wais://ifi.uio.no/comp.text.sgml/TEXT/11048/1=3Difi.uio.no%3A= 210;2=3D/local/ftp/lib/wais/comp.text.sgml;3=3D0%2011048%20/local/ftp/pub/= SGML/comp.text.sgml/by.msgid/19930511.074728.98%40almaden.ibm.com;4=3Difi.= uio.no%3A210;5=3D/local/ftp/lib/wais/comp.text.sgml;6=3D0%2011048%20/local= /ftp/pub/SGML/comp.text.sgml/by.msgid/19930511.074728.98%40almaden.ibm.com= ;7=3D%00;

WWW and Hytime %28was Explicit Linking is Impossible%29 (in comp.text.= sgml)

wais://ifi.uio.no/comp.text.sgml?WWW+and+Hy= time+%28was+Explicit+Linking+is+Impossible%29

WEK: HTML DTD and HyTime

wais://ifi.uio.no/comp.text.sgml/TEXT/12392/1=3Difi.uio.no%3A= 210;2=3D/local/ftp/lib/wais/comp.text.sgml;3=3D0%2012392%20/local/ftp/pub/= SGML/comp.text.sgml/by.msgid/19930524.152345.29%40almaden.ibm.com;4=3Difi.= uio.no%3A210;5=3D/local/ftp/lib/wais/comp.text.sgml;6=3D0%2012392%20/local= /ftp/pub/SGML/comp.text.sgml/by.msgid/19930524.152345.29%40almaden.ibm.com= ;7=3D%00;

Request for a valid HTML.DTD @ CERN

wais://ifi.uio.no= /comp.text.sgml/TEXT/12992/1=3Difi.uio.no%3A210;2=3D/local/ftp/lib/wais/co= mp.text.sgml;3=3D0%2012992%20/local/ftp/pub/SGML/comp.text.sgml/by.msgid/4= E74%40cernvm.cern.ch;4=3Difi.uio.no%3A210;5=3D/local/ftp/lib/wais/comp.tex= t.sgml;6=3D0%2012992%20/local/ftp/pub/SGML/comp.text.sgml/by.msgid/4E74%40= cernvm.cern.ch;7=3D%00;

Related Specs

internet-drafts/draft-levinson-sgml-00.txt

ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-levinson-sgml-00.txt

GNN Home Page

http://nearnet.gnn= .com/gnn/GNNhome.html

Notes on Tools

1. Reading news with GNUS on lemacs at an X terminal, saving articles in= mh-mail folders
2. Browsing the comp.text.sgml archive with the emacs interface to WAIS over a dial-up connection.
3. Retracing my steps with Mosiac and creating a hot-list.
4. Mailing the hotlist to myself to get it into HTML.
5. Editing the resulting hotlist with html-mode in lemacs.
6. Validating the result with sgmls and a local copy of the HTML DTD.
7. Archiving the result locally with RCS
8. Using mhn to build a MIME message out of the results.

It's too bad that a lot of the audit trail gets lost when building these things. For example, I've coded links to some USENET news articles as WAIS URL's. Even though I know the message-id of the news article and some of my readers may have copies of those articles locally, I cannot express the link to them in HTML.

It's also too bad that the hotlist feature of Mosiac doesn't use HTML in the first place.

These are things I hope we fix soon.

I tried to use www -listrefs to generate a plaintext version, but I couldn't get it to work like I wanted... I think I gotta get tkWWW installed around here!

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