> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dancer [mailto:dancer@zeor.simegen.com]
>
> > > From: Mike Batchelor [SMTP:mbatchelor@citysearch.com]
> > >
> > > HTTP is becoming the catch-all tunnel for all sorts of unsavory,
> > > poorly-thought-out applications. It was a mistake to allow for
> > > extensions
> > >
> > In the web, Postscript is unfashionable, because it is old,
> > even though it would be a better way of getting the explicit
> > control of formatting craved by most commercial site designers.
>
> Of course, HTML wasn't intended to give explicit control of formatting.
> The approach was maximum portability at the cost of explicit control.
> Now we look like we're leaning the other way.
>
Leaning? We jumped off the cliff about 4 years ago pal! :) Welcome to the
afterlife!
Received on Tue Jun 08 1999 - 11:52:23 MDT
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