Toward Closure on HTML

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"Daniel W. Connolly" writes:
>   FORMS, TABLES, AND MATH
>   
>    I think forms should be a separate document type. I don't see a requirement
>    to be able to include forms inside arbitrary documents. And I see more value
>    in separating them from the normal HTML document type.

No no no a thousand times no absolutely not.  This is completely out
of the question and conflicts severely with current practice.  Making
forms a "separate document type" would grievously wound WWW as it now
exists.

If you don't see this, please look harder.

>    The same goes for tables, math, and small inline images. Rather than trying
>    to squeeze these into the HTML DTD, we need a way to transmit multiple MIME
>    body parts in one transaction.

Likewise for inlined images.

Marc