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> One cannot rely on "HTML 5" as a solution to this problem. The next > generation of HTML will not provide any such facilities. Information > about the nature of the next generation HTML can be obtained > by reading > current Working Draft: > http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-html-in-xml-19981205/ Can people please be specific, so I can see if I have lost the plot here: If I was to propose a component-XML DTD that began with a tag called HTML, then others called HEAD and BODY, and it had definitions for text fields, buttons, drop-boxes, images, tables and more, as well as being able to call up external programs and all the rest of it; what ADDITIONAL features is everyone saying they would want to be present in *their* component-XML that are not in 'mine' (and I really think the lack of graphics on a button is insufficient justification for spending the next year writing an entire XHTML!) I'm not saying that the user-interface has to then be a web browser - make it Java if you want. All I'm saying is there is a very good syntax in place for defining user interfaces - why not use it? Mark Birbeck Managing Director Intra Extra Digital Ltd. 39 Whitfield Street London W1P 5RE w: http://www.iedigital.net/ t: 0171 681 4135 e: Mark.Birbeck@i... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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