At 11:49 +0000 1998/12/15, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/

I think if one took PDF, added the things needed to display in a WWW (like
information about the viewing window), integrated with the Java bytecode in
a wholly object oriented way, etc, then one might arrive at a suitable
"graphical bytecode". (So in particular, fonts would be object, and one
could choose to put them in separate files or one the same file as the
document.)

The DOM already has a relation with the CORBA (see in the introduction), so
that would probably provide a basis for the higher level language: WWW
publishing would integrate with other types of distributed programming.

Then this would be a suitable model for an "extended DVI", by which the
new, improved TeX can build:

One should be able to do pretty advanced things: There is no longer any
difference between a document (or rather its representation in the
computer) and a computer program.

  Hans Aberg
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