Re: Apples ==> Styles, Oranges ==> HT (was Re: I come not to praise HTML, blah blah....Bubblenomics)

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Dec 26 1999 - 18:19:15 MST

> > The deficiencies of HTML go much deeper, until and unless the embedded
> link
> > problems (which are acute) are solved.
<snip>
>Actually, as I see it, embedded linking isn't a problem, even for Xanadu
>systems, since

<description of Dan's proposed interim solution elided>

Recapping my earlier comment,
> > Several interim solutions have been
> > proposed. Perhaps one of those, or something yet unheard of, will
> > eventually gain wide acceptance..

Dan: what you describe is an interim solution. I don't dispute that it
could suck less.

But how do I do, for instance, place an embedded link in a passage of
music? _Should_ I?
How do I link every occurrence of a musical motif (as a span set) to my
comments on it?
Embedded linking remains a problem. "Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a
leg."

MMB

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