In fact, such browsers already exist in the form of most commercial SGML
products. It's a relatively small task to extend the interfaces of those
SGML tools to be HTTP-compatible (at least I hope it's small 'cause I need
to do it :)
Once these tools are available as Web clients (and hopefully with HTML as a
compliant DTD), the complexity will be completely hidden.
I think this will be the state of the Web world in 1 yr or less.
--Alan Wexelblat, Reality Hacker, Author, and Cyberspace Bard
Media Lab - Advanced Human Interface Group wex@media.mit.edu
Voice: 617-258-9168 Page: 617-945-1842 na53607@anon.penet.fi
"To sacrifice strength and flexibility on the altar of backwards-
compatibility is like asking the human being to express the DNA for
cyanobacteria just because he's evolved from them." --Mark Pesce