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