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Hans Aberg writes:
> The display of the WWW browser itself must use a language of some kind to
> display its graphicla information, links and such (telling where each spot
> is supposed to be)
why do you think there is an intermediate language? Netscape under
Windows, say, reads a CSS spec, and renders it by internal calls to
the underlying Windows GDI. there is no hook there which you can
attach to.
> display information. Turn that more basic language into a byte code; then
what is this obsession with "byte codes"??
> any other language (DVI, PS, PDF, ...) can display by first converting to
> that language: For every new such language, you then need a plugin that can
> do the translation, but that is all.
IF the browsers have a `byte code' layer and an API, then fine.
> byte-code language. The point is that it is platform independent.
I suspect you'd be better off using a nice graphical markup language
like PGML or Microsoft's equivalent (--> SVG, when W3C complete their
work). Thats the XML equivalent of
PostScript, and you can expect browsers to support it directly
sebastian
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