to read: hypertext in historical context. "vannevar bush and ted nelson revisited", they promise. let it see.

lot of stuff there.

www talk from 1992.

tim berners-lee (timbl) and dan connolly talking about writing a html dtd: also the dream about wysiwyg editors was still in place: it may be that the wysiwyg editors have a linear style structure because that is intuitive to people. I don't know a lot of people who use author/editor (which maintains structure). Maybe real people actually think in terms of styles and fix the document to look right, then they are happy to have the structure deduced.

So if we went for a nestable HTML which would be cleaner for those who apreciate recursion, we would have to have a hypertext editor which made the structure visible. I don't have experience enough to know whether real information providers (group secretaries, for example) would be into generating nested elements -- maybe the styles are useful to keep as the current `user interface metaphor' of word processors. (It also makes making the editor easier!)