The BOF section of WWW 94 might be a fine time to discuss this.
I added a proposal to the list (http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/bof.shtml)
My proposed BOF (http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/bof/20.shtml) reads
as follows:
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HTML documents currently provide a limited amount of user interaction
though the forms and ISMAP interface, and a number of people have used
these to good effect. Now we also feel the limits of this interface.
It would be fun to talk about this. Topics might include:
* Establishing the requirements: what applications are simply not
possible now but could be?
* Are there simple extensions to HTML that could enable such
applications, or is this a bottomless pit?
* What are the issues for such interaction languages? (safety,
expressibility, multi-platform, multiple look-and-feel)
* Are there suitable existing languages? Among those suggested are Python,
Scheme+Tk, and safe-tcl.
For more information see http://dri.cornell.edu/pub/davis/html-interaction.html
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