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- Pei,
-
- I have added you to www-talk as requested.
-
- > I'm now browsing through parts of the WWW distribution, and I'm
- seeing
- > lots of potential in it. It seems that the only browser is for the
- NeXT,
- > a platform most people don't have access to, which is a shame.
-
- > I'm now seriously considering writing an X11 browser for HTML files
- > by extending a program I've been working on (called VIOLA, a
- program
-
- > somewhat like HyperCard)...
-
- Ok.. sounds like a good idea. Dan Conolly (Convex Inc) has put
- together a W3 browser for X but could not release the code. A group
- of students in Finland were also going to do this for a project -- I
- don't know the status of that work. Anyone who makes a good X11 W3
- browser will be very popular.
-
- Now we have just got a new architecure for the browser code, with a
- generic (simple!) SGML parser, and basically all the browser code
- common (networking, name resulution, parsing) between different
- browsers. The new line mode browser is under test - it has NNTP
- access to news built in as well as HTTp and FTP access to indexes and
- files.
-
- > I'm wondering if you could give me some pointers to the standards
-
- > SGML and HTML (which seems to be the HyperText extention of SGML?).
-
- SGML is very general. HTML is a specific application of the SGML
- basic syntax applied to hypertext documents with simple structure.
- The HTML tags used are in our documentation. (If you browse to our
- test document, it has a link to its own source which you can take as
- an example.) Type
-
- www http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Test/test_source.html
-
- and follow the first link to see the source. Our code therefore has
- a simple generic SGML parser engine which handles nested tags and
- feeds a HTML parser which has hypertext-specific code in it. That
- feeds a stream of style-changes and text and anchor start/end points
- into a hypertext object which is what we don't have under X.
-
- > Anymore relevant documentation on SGML/HTML, tips, and whatever you
-
- > think may help me in my task, would be gratfully accepted.
-
- I could make up a tar file of our alpha-test code, including the HTML
- SGML parser. Any pointers to SGML I have are in the web - not much
- public stuff. Two books are "SGML Handbook" by Charles Goldfarb, and
- "Practical SGML" by Eric van Herwijnen.
-
- > Pei Y. Wei (wei@scam.Berkeley.EDU)
- > Experimental Computing Facility,
-
- > University of California @ Berkeley
-
- Thanks for your interest, welcome to the list.
-
- Tim
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