Re: HTML: use SGML keyboarding features?

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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 09:59:19 +0100
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Message-id: <9212090859.AA01014@www3.cern.ch>
To: Dan Connolly <connolly@pixel.convex.com>
Subject: Re: HTML: use SGML keyboarding features?
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Reply-To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch

We should insist that anything shipped on the net and described
as conforming HTML is normalized a la DTD.

That doesn't stop parsers being tolerant of unnormalized stuff.
These keyboarding aids are just a poor man's HTML editor. Others will use  
editor macros etc.   SGML is not going to survive by pretending to be a  
keyborad entry format.  (They also look horrible to me but then so do a number  
of aspects of SGML... )

Tim