[html4all] HTML4All HTML (at http://html4all.org/wiki/index.php/HTML)

[Robert J Burns]

Hi Leif,

Thanks. I thought it was a good idea to differentiate them as well. I  
wrote to Ian about that a long time ago and I think he thought it was  
a dumb idea. I've actually changed it a little to be tHTML with a  
lower case 't', though there may be places on the wiki where I have  
not done that yet. I've started that on the bug reports page[1].

Once one starts thinking about the serialization as a separate concept  
entirely it really helps a lot. I've recently learned there are many  
efforts to create binary serializations of XML infosets (such as EXI) 
[2]. The tHTML serialization ends up crippled compared to basically  
any other. With a DTD, we'll basically have the following  
serializations with no other work:

1. tHTML
2. XML
3. SGML
4. EXI[2] (and any other binary representation of the XML infoset)

However, the tHTML serialization will not support the richer content  
models of the other serializations (such as tree tables, block  
quotations, tables and lists within paragraphs, etc).

Thanks for the link on poetry. I think that's a vocabulary that  
probably should be part of the core HTML document format.

Take care,
Rob

[1]: <http://html4all.org/wiki/index.php/Bug_reports>
[2]: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXI>

On Jan 10, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:

> Robert J Burns 2009-01-08 20.30:
>> Hello 4All,
>
>> [1]: <http://html4all.org/wiki/index.php/HTML>
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if it is your invention or if I just overlooked that  
> someone else used it, but the abbreviation THTML for text/html is a  
> brillant one. I really think we could need that abbreviation in the  
> "official" vocabulary, in order to properly discern between the  
> vocabulary and the serialisation.
>
> Btw, since you reference the proposed markup for poetry etc, perhaps  
> you want to consider Olaf Hoffman's draft for the Literature Markup  
> Language? See: http://hoffmann.bplaced.net/lml
> -- 
> leif halvard sili
>
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