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- > Sounds like somone ought to be buying you a workstation for Christmas :-)
- > But I realize that users tend not to use/have X, even now.
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- The vast majority of users on the
- Internet have dialin or tty based accounts, and I do not see this trend
- changing in the forseeable future. Any tool which assumes *anything*
- about the hardware resources of the user is (IMHO) a bad thing.
-
- Then we should be all be designing things that are delivered on paper,
- because the vast majority of potential users of the internet in the
- next few years are not going to have any network at all or any
- hardware at all on which to display user or tutorial or reference
- documentation.
-
- W3 is actually as good a first step as any in this direction. Since
- the markup is (at least one step toward) SGML, it is possible to
- create documents that are usable within W3 that actually look nice on
- paper. That's a big step forward. I am not sure yet whether you can
- design something that's optimally designed for a 24x80 ascii screen
- and also for paper (probably not) but at least it'll be usable in both
- contexts.
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