http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/w3j/s3.nelson.html
Embedded Markup Considered Harmful
Theodor Holm Nelson
and read the section marked 'Alternative method 1: parallel markup'
Okay, so CSS gives you _cleaner_ markup and _less_ of it with _some_
parallelism, which isn't quite what Ted's dreaming of, but it seems
like a good fit.
Ted then goes on to reinvent content/structure/presentation
separation. That's it. That separation and CSS are doomed, obviously.
Ted has spoken. (CSS predated this piece by about a year.)
the description of the system in footnote 2 clearly predates the ZX
Spectrum and attribute clash - Danny, take note for the next NTK
trivia contest. It's tempting to think that the only reason Ted
mentions that rather than the Spectrum was that the Spectrum was
_successful_.
And the URL in the references is broken, of course.
Deliberate irony, one assumes.
L.
http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/w3j/
is awfully impressive, too.
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