On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Tim Rowledge wrote:
[snip]
> >   Not every object wants to know how to present itself in HTML.
> Depends on your web framework. PWS/Comanche/Swikie/etc actually allow 
> any object to present itself to the browser user. To do that you have to 
> have some sort of interface up in Object to make sure it will work. Why 
> would we want to only allow some objects in our webbrowsing?
[snip]

Actually, the original author had a proposal that should work: a "third
party" class that, well, knew how to render all objects (perhaps via
double dispatch for the tricky one). This seems to have a big of ugliness
all it's own :)

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.