Extending HTML in a principled way with displets

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1997

Abstract

Displets provide authors and programmers with a way to freely extend the HTML language on a per-document basis in a principled manner. Currently, in order to be accepted, HTML elements must be approved by the official HTML review board. Non-standard extensions have appeared, and have relied on the commercial power of the proponents for acceptance. Two major forces are driving the extension process of the HTML language: those who favor a better description of document elements, as with SGML, and those who would like better control over the final appearance of documents, as with Postscript and other display-oriented languages. Special notations (such as mathematics, music, etc.), are hardly considered - if at all - in defining the HTML standard. We designed displets to fill this frustrating gap. Displets are Java classes that are activated while rendering an HTML document. Displets provide graphical artists a better control over the final appearance of HTML documents, librarians and indexers a better description of their content, and those in need of new notations a way to describe and use graphical objects in a manner compatible with the graphical and structural habits of the HTML community. © 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

Identifier

0343856253 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Computer Networks

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/s0169-7552(97)00011-1

ISSN

13891286

First Page

1115

Last Page

1128

Issue

8-13

Volume

29

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