In the text box "A Vision for a More Sophisticated HTML" (News & Views, March, page 30), the idea that different browsers support different levels of HTML is just plain crazy. It would be much simpler to have all HTML browsers accept full SGML tagging rather than to create more versions of HTML. All browsers would render all tag sets, including all varieties of HTML and even incompatible HTML versions and tag sets that haven't even been developed yet. Documents could have a unique tag set, and authors and users would gain control of the rendering. The rendering table should be dynamically loaded; it is not necessary to have full SGML smarts in an SGML-rendering browser.
Bob Goldstein
Computer Center
University of Illinois at Chicago
bobg@uic.edu
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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Simplifying WWW Publishing with SGML
