Update on HTML 3.0 proposal

Dave Raggett (dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Tue, 21 Mar 95 13:05:38 EST

I have modified the proposal to take into account Joe English's comments
on role vs class. For the latest version:

o Added REL=Banner to LINK element
o Added BANNER element in place of <DIV CLASS=BANNER>
o Added RANGE and SPOT elements for marked ranges
o Added FN in place of <NOTE ROLE=FOOTNOTE>
o Changed ROLE to CLASS for NOTE element

See: http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html3/CoverPage.html

The complete proposal can now be downloaded in compressed plain
text with form feeds. Its getting on for 200 pages long!

http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html3/html3.txt.Z

Page numbers for the table of contents are in the pipeline. I'm not
planning on a postscript version for the time being as this isn't
needed for Internet Drafts.

Can anyone help me resolve a design issue for textflow?
I would like to merge the functionality of the NEEDS attribute
into the CLEAR attribute so that:

clear=left
Move down until the left margin is clear
clear=right
Move down until the right margin is clear
clear=all
Move down until both margins are clear
clear="40 em"
Move down if there isn't at least 40 em units clear
clear="100 pixels"
Move down if there isn't at least 100 pixels clear

I realize that such an attribute can't be checked by conventional
SGML parsers, but don't see this as a big problem. Merging the
two attributes would simplify the spec as well as HTML parsers.

What do people think?

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> tel: +44 272 228046 fax: +44 272 228003
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Filton Road, Bristol BS12 6QZ, United Kingdom