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Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 08:02:10 -0500
From: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece)
To: john@eco.powernet.co.uk
CC: cbullard@HiWAAY.net, connolly@w3.org, hyper-theory@math.byu.edu,
www-html@w3.org
Subject: Re: HTML is declarative on purpose [was: Web neurons ]
X-UIDL: 833491981.003
From: john@eco.powernet.co.uk (John Middlemas)
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| Scott writes:-
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| > The problem is that in some cases (a growing number) the "content" of
| > the page is generated by the code. If you don't execute the code, you
| > don't have any words to index. This is a significant obstacle to
| > providing effective indexing and access to the information on the Web.
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| Yes, I suppose I should have realised this.
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| So to maintain good indexing you shouldn't generate "content" from
| code. One has to ask why this is done anyway. Perhaps the very reason
| is because HTML has not itself got the proper tools in place.
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By the way, I didn't mean to criticize your idea - I was just answering
a question. I think the web neuron idea is interesting. I would
suggest building something, as a proof of concept. I don't think you'll
get a lot of support for standardizing the idea until you can
demonstrate that it's an effective tool (that is, Turing completeness
alone is not enough - nobody writes programs for Turing machines).
scott
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John Middlemas
hyper-theory@math.byu.edu