Scott E. Preece	Len Bullard
hyper-theory@math.byu.edu		John Middlemas
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:13:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "C. Len Bullard" <cbullard@HiWAAY.net> To: "Scott E. Preece" <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com> Cc: john@eco.powernet.co.uk, connolly@w3.org, hyper-theory@math.byu.edu, www-html@w3.org Subject: Re: HTML is declarative on purpose [was: Web neurons ] X-UIDL: 833408801.000 This is true, of course. Any information that is bound at run time requires an application be "run". But this is also an issue close to the heart of what I suggest is going on: people need to define executable applications, and some want to do it in the context of a document-centric system. That this violates or strains the HTML application language is inevitable, but the answer is not to relentlessly extend HTML, but to define another Web language for that purpose. Applets are a different issue from JavaScript. An applet is a parameterized call to an external handler. The indexing engine shouldn't look in that box except to note that a call exists and perhaps what it calls if that is useful indexable information. Separating the control classes, the content classes, and the script classes into separate DTDs is one approach. Consider that identifying variants by extending the formal public identifier equates to this. len bullard