Re: An Enhanced Web (was Re: [Fleckenstein] The Story of Bubblenomics)

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sun Dec 26 1999 - 04:00:36 MST


Harvey Newstrom writes:
> HTML is not just a layout language. It is also a hypertext language. It

What's so magical about hypertext? It is not very hard to do.

> has hotlinks to other pages, hooks for ftp file transfers, hooks for running

Has no backlinks, and generically looks like Xanadu after prolonged
brain ischaemia.

> applets and helper applications, and meta tags for keyword searches and

Err, don't you think it's strange that you at all need hooks for
applets and helper applications?

> contact information. Postscript was not a networking protocol.

HTML is an ASCII stream. PostScript is an ASCII stream. PostScript is
a powerful, yet simple to implement interactively expandable
all-purpose programming language with a focus on device-independant
graphics and typography, including realtime GUI rendering.

HTML is just a simple markup language. PostScript with a couple
screens of code can do everything HTML do, and More.



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