From roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca Mon Mar 23 12:23:54 1998 Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:56:44 -0500 (EST) From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor Reply-To: roconnor@uwaterloo.ca To: www-html@w3.org Subject: HTML Architecture (Was: Future of HTML) Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:56:53 -0500 (EST) Resent-From: www-html@w3.org I'd like to add that my motivation for wanting an HTML Architecture comes from a desire to allow authors to create their own entities for client-side includes. For example, I want the following to be legal HTML: ]> Sample &header; &footer; I'm sure this has been discussed before. The advantages of client-side includes over server-side includes include better caching, less load on the server, and less network traffic. An HTML architecture is a more general solution to a more general problem, but I'd at least like to see this ability for client-side includes in the next version of HTML. -- Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca "And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message" -- Anindita Dutta, "The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy"