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- From: watt@parka.winternet.com (Bacon Runner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What I'd like to see happen
- Date: 27 Feb 96 03:40:56 GMT
- Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
- Message-ID: <watt.825392456@winternet.com>
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- Kevin Lowe <klowe@nwlink.com> writes:
-
- >There needs to be a drastic upturn in the number of Datatypes. I mean,
- [deleted]
- >DataTypes divide all files into the following main categories:
- > syst (System) - system files
- > text (Text) - textual files
- > docu (Document) - documents (spreadsheet data, text with pictures etc.)
- > soun (Sound) - sound samples
- > inst (Instrument) - musical instruments
- > musi (Music) - songs
- > pict (Picture) - graphics
- > anim (Animation) - animations
- > movi (Movie) - animation with sound
-
- >There is quite a range that hasn't been exploited in that list. Maybe
- >it's time some work was made towards that goal.
-
- You are a genious! :) Seriously, I like your ideas and I wanted to
- expand on one of them. An HTML datatype would allow -any- datatype
- supporting app to be a web browser. Imagine writing your web pages in
- FinalWriter, FinalCalc, or Photogenics. Imagine opening up FW and reading
- a doc file with links to web sites embedded within. There is big
- potential here.
-
- At one point, someone was working on an HTML datatype called Tesseract. I
- believe he moved on to developing for the NeXT platform.
- --
- Andy Wattenhofer
- watt@winternet.com
-