Seeking a Dao of Groves (from Eliot Kimber)

[Tim Bray]

>Posted on behalf of Eliot Kimber [for technical list reasons].

>>At least
>>until the same legislators who are requiring both more multimedia
>>content in schools and fully-accessible materials for all students
>>realize that these two requirements cannot be met by current technology
>>and make the use of HyTime (or its functional equivalent) required by
>>law.

Ah... and put it into the curriculum too, dammit!  Architectural forms in 
Grade 5, Grove Plans in Grade 7, Finite Co-ordinate Spaces in Grade 9, and 
you have to commit the SGML Property Set to memory to graduate.  And bring 
back cold showers too, I say.

Actually, Eliot is right; Macromedia Director is an example of something
for which HyTime is the only plausible interchange format.  -Tim

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