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

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Fri Dec 24 1999 - 13:23:03 MST


And this means what to me?
And you address me as "Butler" why?
It came off rather brusque, but that might just be me.

MMB

At 14:44 1999/12/24 -0500, you wrote:
>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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