Absolutely. Pei's latest Viola allows ffor example a LISTING section to
be viewed as an embedded scrollable region. There is nothing rendering-centric
in HTML.
> Perhaps what we need is a WG to design the next generation of HGML? Is
> there such a beast already?
Those who have been interested in it have aired their views on this list.
Theer haven't been many concrete suggestions for different elements
(except for a fixed width format which allows embedded anchors).
Dan has done a lot of work cleaning it up.
I would like to see separate header and body sections,
so that document-wide info like the title, author, can be found easily
before the body. Of course, if one uses MIME, ther is the
mail header with From: and Subject: fields.
which could be used fro the header, i.e. take teh header out of the
HTML.