[5857] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTML and Custom Interfaces (was RE: Non-Scrolling Region)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Davis)
Tue Sep 27 19:26:31 1994
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 00:24:16 +0100
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From: Jim Davis <davis@DRI.cornell.edu>
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Could we discuss this at WWW 94?
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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