Re: I come not to praise HTML, but to bury it (was Re: An Enhanced Web (was R...

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Dec 24 1999 - 12:44:42 MST


Butler, I was just told by a friend of mine, an Oracle DBA that the money is
in ASL-companies pay major casharoo for knowledge of it.

In a message dated 12/24/1999 2:15:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
butler@comp-lib.org writes:
> HTML was not _at all_ a layout language, originally. It has been forced
> into that capacity.
> Over and over again. It has become a big warty bag.
>
> The name named it: a _markup_ language. Symbolic and
> syntactical--"Emphasize this. That's a title. Here's the body copy.".
_NOT_
> "gimme 14 point Garamond Italic in three flush-left columns, each
> one-quarter-page wide.".



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