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- From: worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Update to Native Developer Kit 3.1: Request for ideas
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 10:22:23 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
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- References: <c92andst.824531222@news> <xJ7cYMD42Daoz5@j-plewka.amtrash.comlink.de> <4gfet7$23e@wn1.sci.kun.nl> <jdjspg3i0mj.fsf@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi>
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- In article <jdjspg3i0mj.fsf@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi>,
- Osma Ahvenlampi <Osma.Ahvenlampi@hut.fi> wrote:
- >In article <4gfet7$23e@wn1.sci.kun.nl> rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert) writes:
- >>But I think a major disadvantage of HTML over AmigaGuide is that
- >>HTML files require a file per "page". AmigaGuide files can be self-
- >>contained files with lots of internal pages.
- >
- >So? In the way of Netscape, define a private extension to HTML, this
- >time that a document can contain several <BODY> sections, only one of
- >which should be rendered at once. Then you can reference another
- >section by <A NAME>. No new tags, a browser that doesn't understand it
- >will display all pages at once, and the browsers that do understand
- >the extension will work just like the document was AmigaGuide "nodes".
-
- I think you'll find <A NAME=...> is used to define markers within the text
- of an HTML doc... It's really a bad idea to start adding these ad hoc
- extensions to HTML; look at the trouble Netscape created for other browser
- authors, not to mention the trouble Internet Explorer will soon be causing.
-
- What exactly is the problem with using separate files? Just bundle them
- together in one directory...
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