• To: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Subject: Re: Web Design Principles (was Re: Generality ofHTTP)
• From: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:42:40 +0000 (GMT)
• Cc: The Deviants <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20020129111933.01d3fe70@p...>

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Sean McGrath wrote:

> The presence of RTF and HTML in this list of data interchange notations
> that work "pretty well" beggars belief.
>
> Please tell me I'm picking you up wrong here.

No... I can view HTML in my browser; there's a wide choice of browsers
unless you get into really deep DHTML stuff. By 'data interchange', I
don't mean 'encode my purchase order in HTML', I mean 'encode my web page
in HTML' - horses for courses[1]. Likewise for RTF, just less so :-)

>
> Sean
>

[1] potentially British term meaning 'right tool for the right job'

-- 
                               Alaric B. Snell
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