Our Prototype Software

In designing our software, we were aware that the requirements for an OHP-based presentation were somewhat different from those where the document was simply designed to be browsed.

In particular, an OHP presentation must, of necessity, include the idea of a "new slide" or, in other words, page breaks. Because HTML does not include markup for this, we were faced wth a choice:

  1. Define a new pagebreak markup along the lines of the existing paragraph (P) type, which should be ignored by normal browsers. We decided against this approach, since what the world needs least of all right now is yet another browser-proprietory addition to HTML.
  2. Interpret some of the standard HTML markups in specific ways. We decided that this approach was better.
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