[6348] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Structured text v. page descriptions (was Netscape, HTML, and Designers)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Burchard)
Thu Oct 27 04:08:14 1994
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 08:55:00 +0100
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From: Paul Burchard <burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu>
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rcp@austin.sar.slb.com (Robert C. Pettengill) writes:
> A big source of the tension in the past was that HTML was the
> only way we had to do URIs (i.e. hypertext) on the WWW. Very
> shourtly we will have 3 choices that support hypertext in WWW:
Actually, at least five...
> PDF - for those who care the most about presentation (Is
> anyone working on a forms POST interface for PDF?)
>
> SGML - for those who care about content markup and user
> editing
>
> HTML - the general purpose compromise that has features
> for both the presentation crowd and the markup crowd and
> satisfies neither.
(...and also provides a cross-platform user interface language)
Hyper-TeX - for sophisticated presentation of mathematically
intensive text and graphics.
VRML - for 3-dimensional hypermedia (and eventually, distributed
virtual reality).
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