List of Issues Raised in Discussion

This is a list of issues that people have raised in regards to HTML 3.0.

Entity definitions in the doctype declaration subset

Tony Jebson <aj@wg.icl.co.uk> writes:

The emacs browser allows an HTML document to define its own additional entities, is this legal in an HTML 3.0 document? If so how would I define such a thing and still have a conformant SGML document?

How about something like: 

<!DOCTYPE HTML-3.0
[
    <!ENTITY that CDATA "þæt">
]>
<HTML-3.0>
..
&that;
..
</HTML-3.0>

Assuming this is legal, does/will "Arena" support this?

I think we should support this, and to further support the use of marked sections in HTML 3.0 documents. I don't think we need to support <!ELEMENT> or <!ATTLIST> etc. though.

Associating text captions with INPUT fields

Paul Burchard <burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu> writes:

Why not extend FIG-style alignments to INPUTs as well? I realize that you deliberately made IMG as backwards compatible as possible to gain freedom for the development of FIG, but there's no replacement for INPUT. At least for INPUTs like SUBMIT, IMAGE, and SCRIBBLE that can have background images, it would be nice to be able to place text alongside, just as for figures.

What should we call the new element then? What about FIELD? The declaration would be the same as INPUT but with a %text; content.

Drop METHODS attribute in links?

Can we drop this, as it doen't appear to have been used yet?

Add a message digest attribute to links

This would provide a simple check on the integrity of inlined or referenced material, and is useful when

Further elements (from HTML+)

Michael Johnson < michaelj@relay.relay.com> writes:

In reading through the HTML3 DTD, I note that some of the elements that were in HTML+ have been omitted from the draft HTML3 specification. The ones that I most want to see resurrected in HTML3 are:

If I had to choose one of these to make the cut, it would be FOOTNOTE, with CHANGED a close second. MARGIN is redundant if FOOTNOTE is retained.

ONLINE and PRINTED might be nice, but their absence would not break my heart.