SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Gordon C. Zaft <zaft_at_azstarnet.com>
Date: Sat Aug 18 13:25:53 2001

At 11:33 AM 8/18/2001 -0400, you wrote:

>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...

         Isn't that basically the idea of display Postscript? Whatever
happened to that?

GZ

Gordon Zaft
zaft_at_azstarnet.com
Received on Sat Aug 18 2001 - 13:25:53 BST