From: Harvey Newstrom (newstrom@newstaffinc.com)
Date: Sun Dec 26 1999 - 10:45:30 MST
Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote on Sunday, December
26, 1999 6:00 am,
> 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.
I didn't say it was hard. I said that HTML does things that postscript does
not currently support.
> 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-independent
> graphics and typography, including real-time GUI rendering.
I know what postscript is. I know what HTML is. You cannot currently do
HTML type stuff in postscript. That is the answer as to why HTML was
invented and postscript wasn't used for the web.
> HTML is just a simple markup language. PostScript with a couple
> screens of code can do everything HTML do, and More.
Yes, with proper programming, postscript could be made to do what HTML does.
But you would have to add all the mark-up capabilities of SGML to postscript
to create a mark-up language. Sure, it could have been done. The original
HTML designers felt that a creating a subset of SGML was easier than
modifying a printer/graphics language for the task.
People have created hundreds of web languages. Another one made out of
extended postscript is quite possible to do.
-- Harvey Newstrom <http://harveynewstrom.com> Certified Consultant, Legal Hacker, Engineer, Research Scientist, Author.
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