SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Sat Aug 18 10:33:20 2001

Jim Tuck wrote:

At 01:18 AM 8/17/01 -0400, you wrote:
>HTML isn't flimsy as a language goes.. The problem is
>the wack intrepreters. Each does something different,
>especially in the case of a broken document..
>
>(Not starting a browser flamewar.. No, I'm not.
>Really. No flames. Shaddup already!.)
>
>Jim

I've always wondered why html was not originally conceived
say, as a package extension for TeX; each browser would run TeX,
load the html doc with locally defined screen (i.e. paper) size
parms and output a dvi file that would be rendered on the screen...
That would have made the web look so much better...

carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Sat Aug 18 2001 - 10:33:20 BST