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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 12:17:58 +0200
- Organization: dis-
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- docsane@user1.channel1.com (Neil Scott Nadelman) writes:
-
- > Funny, I always thought a standard was what the majority of people
- >were using at the time, whether it was official or not. Since most of the
- >WWW seems to have adopted Netscape as their browser of choice, they seem to
- >have solved the question of standards through conquest of the market.
-
- IMHO this isn't yet solved.
-
- >If the group that determined HTML standards managed to write the best piece
- >of language standards in the world but nobody used them, have they still
- >written a standard?
-
- Yes. That's literally a standard. Doesn't mean that it is used.
-
- > Why are so many people so horrified at the prospect of an Amiga browser
- >being NHTML compatible?
-
- Because that is like Amiga being MS-DOS and Windoze compatible. And also
- because NHTML is a waste of resources. HTML was created to describe contents
- of a document and to explicitely ignore how it is displayed. This makes
- it useful for a large variety of applications, a HTML document is like
- a database entry and you can examine it by contents. It also means that
- you do not transmit details of the layout that might be invalid on
- different output devices anyway.
-
- The excessive use of image maps is already against the spirit of HTML.
- And the NHTML extensions are mainly used to describe the exact display
- and not the contents.
-
- The proposed draft of HTML-3 is much better. It separates layout from
- contents. But even then its layout descriptions are more or less
- independent of the output device AND it is possible to strip them
- from the document or to augment them by your own choices. It also tries
- to reduce the number of images to be transferred.
-
- >Is there really an advantage in not being able to
- >view pages the way their designers intended?
-
- Yes.
-
- >Must we follow standards at the
- >expense of ignoring the real world?
-
- The real world uses Windoze. Don't we try to ignore that already ?
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
- Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
- "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
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