Single room, arranged class room style with chairs and desks. Some 50-60% will have access to power strips for notebook computers. The power strips will be taped down to meet safety regulations, so if you need power you will have to choose where you sit accordingly.
At the front we will have a large video display with provision for PC and Macintosh at 800x600 resolution. There will be a podium and radio microphone for speakers. There will be two floor standing microphones positioned in the central aisle. People will be expected to stand in line behind these microphones when they want to ask questions or to make comments.
For some sessions we will have the minutes projected live to record the discussions and any consensus views we reach. We also plan to hold panels on selected topics. Presenters are requested to make their talks available in electronic form before the end of the workshop, preferably in HTML + CSS.
8:30 Light continental breakfast
9:00 Start
10 mins Introductions: The chairs, how the workshop is organized. The goals of the workshop.
20 mins History of HTML and Chair's view of challenges ahead.
20 mins Presentation of ISO HTML by Roger Price/David Abrahamson, followed by 10 minutes for an open discussion of any issues raised.
15 mins Daniel Austin/Gregory Sherwin, CNET
5 mins questions
15 mins Sebastian Rahtz, Elsevier
5 mins questions
15 mins Ashvil D'Costa, , Intranet 2001 Inc
5 mins questions
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
15 mins Joel Nava, Bruce Hunt, T.V. Raman, Adobe Systems Inc.
5 mins questions
15 mins Ben Trafford, Aerosoft Systems Inc.
5 mins questions
15 mins Robert Sutor, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
5 mins questions
HTML is widely used as a delivery format. The costs of authoring directly in HTML and the opportunity to lower costs via authoring in XML and scripted conversion to HTML tailored to each platform. The advantages of exploiting the vast deployed base of browsers and the long time lag to upgrade to new browsers.
Adding features to HTML that improves its effectiveness in this role, e.g. column layouts, conditionally select display based on client features. Removing features that are inappropriate to this role, and better served by style sheets and scripting. But is this a good idea? Would it be better to start from something closer to Postscript, e.g. PGML?
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch Break (adjoining room)
3:30 - 4:00 Afternoon Break
What are the goals and opportunities for recasting HTML as an XML application? General discussion of the issues involved in casting HTML as an XML application and the technical and market challenges to be faced along the way.
End at 5:30
Break into groups for dinner (not paid for by W3C)
8:30 Light continental breakfast
9:00 Start
15 mins Michael McGhan, Database Administrator, HTML Writers Guild
5 mins questions
15 mins Rohit Khare, Doctoral Student, UC Irvine
5 mins questions
15 mins Susan Malaika, Software Engineer, IBM
5 mins questions
HTML is increasingly being used for distributed applications. The poor fit between HTML's capabilities and traditional database interfaces has prompted the development of work-arounds, e.g. plugins and applets for forms, and reliance on scripts. What opportunities are there for extending HTML to simplify building Web-based database applications? How will this scale to different kinds of browsers with widely varying characteristics? Should we be looking at a Web oriented version of SQL for scripting HTML?
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
Hidetaka Ohto, Matsushita Electric Industrial
Tommi Riikonen, Nokia Multimedia Network Terminals
Sreeram Balakrishnan, Motorola Lexicus Division
Chung Liu, Geoworks
Ray Ingram, The Productivity Works Inc
Each of the panellists will make a brief presentation. We will then throw open the discussion to the floor. Some of the issues include: the impact on authors to provide content that can be viewed successfully on both desktop and mobile devices; ways to deal with legacy content; what is likely to be the killer app for mobile access; avoiding round trip times via scripting; specialized formats for mobile access
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch Break (adjoining room)
This session will look at a variety of miscellaneous features of interest, for example:
3:30 - 4:00 Afternoon Break
Drafting the Charter for further W3C work on HTML. This session will review the areas covered in the workshop and attempt to define a first draft for the charter for further work on HTML, and will be used as the basis for a call for participation in a new HTML working group.
Workshop Ends at 5:30
Dave Raggett last updated 30th April 1998.