Didn't catch the point, did you? :)
Or - are you trying to say that hypertext/hypermedia documents and those
documents of which presentation the author wants or has to have complete
control over are to be completely separated? In that case I think you'll
upset quite a bunch of Web authors.
The fact is that as for now if I want to make a document with hyperlinks I
have to use HTML but then I can't control the presentation. On the other
hand, if I want to make a document with a certain 'look and feel' that's no
problem - I can make it a 400 kb inline GIF or about anything I happen to
think of - but I can't place links into it. What if I wanted to do both?
Hey, now I know... I'll make it an imagemap!!! ;)
Seriously, in the present setup it seems to me that the WWW community is
going to let a huge number of users (or potential ones) down. With nothing
but arguing and bitching and biting it seems to happen like Rudyard Kipling
said: "East is east and west is west and the two shall never meet." Pity...
The style sheet concept sounds great but the point is that we don't need it
after a year or five years. We need it *now*! Otherwise the whole system
will be in a few months from now on like a bunch of tumbleweeds - nobody
knows anymore which servers, clients and documents will talk to eachother.
I hope I made my point clear...
Jari
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