Thanks Dan,
I had checked the bibliography, but did not know the extent to which Dexter
was followed in academic circles.
Looking at the 50-odd list of documents referring to Dexter, and coming
from many years in an academic environment, I understand the reasoning in
following the current school of thought. I suppose my only reply would be
that (IMO) 95% of the audience of the HTML draft may not be familiar with
these ideas, nor the terminology. It may be scholarly correct, but
confusing to the majority of web designers using the document. Is the
strength of Dexter its conceptual model or its language? From outside of
that discipline, the language is somewhat confusing.
Side Note: Investigating the email reference, and while the abstract
listing has a bad URL I did finally locate the document. The correct URL
for "Further Modifications to the Dexter Hypertext Reference Model: a
Proposal" is:
ftp://ftp.cs.unibo.it/pub/TR/UBLCS/94-01.ps.gz (IP: 130.136.1.110)
[There was also a problem in the document name in the abstract listing:
"94-01.ps.gz", not "94-1.ps.gz]
Murray
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