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- From: dgrant@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca (Dennis Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 14:08:02 GMT
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- In article <4jlm4m$muc@serpens.rhein.de> mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- > docsane@user1.channel1.com (Neil Scott Nadelman) writes:
- >
- >
- > > 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.
- >
-
- Michael, the world has changed. HTML has gone far far beyond what is was
- originally intended to be. It is no longer a device independant markup
- language, it's now a new kind of communications medium.
-
- In order for Amiga users to participate in this new medium, we need to be
- able to view NHTML. Period.
-
- And as for "Because that is like Amiga being MS-DOS and Windoze compatible."
- Amigas may not be able to run DOS/Windows programs, but we can use
- DOS/Windows DATA. Comparing NHTML to this is like saying "I won't read that
- book because it was typeset on a PC" or "I won't look at that picture because
- it was made on a Mac"
-
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- Dennis Grant
- dgrant@cycor.ca
- http://www.cycor.ca/TCave/
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