Daniel Barclay wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Daniel Barclay wrote:
Daniel wrote:
frissell wrote:
...the send page feature ...
<rant> Why send the page at all??? Why not just send the link??
Ever thought of ... because maybe you want to make sure you have
captured the information in the e-mail message (perhaps one to
yourself), in case the page changes?
O.K., I'll grant you that maybe, just maybe, a news story that is
of particular interest may get dropped from the main page, but it
is then usually available via a link.
It's a heck of a lot more than just the "maybe, just maybe" case of a
news story or something on a main page. Even plenty of open-source
projects don't seem to understand the need to keep, say,
documentation for non-current versions of software accessible.
Daniel
So you're now wanting to sent, not a web page but, a
document....different case, Daniel, different case!!
NO, it is NOT a different case. Why do you think it is?
If I could generalise, web pages are on the web, were as documents are
not, usually.
(Whether it's something the you would consider "just" a web page with
some desired information in it, or something that you would consider a
"document" on the web with some desired information in it, one might
want to capture a copy to be sure to be able to get to that information
again.)
(And since when is a web page not a kind of document?)
Daniel
Yes, you are right, in the purest deffination, a web page is a document,
a specific type of document, specifically meant to be displayed, not in
a PDF reader, not in a Word-processor program, but in a Browser.
However, in general, technically enabled, society, a web page is not
referred to as a document and if you were to ask a random sample of web
viewers if they were looking at documents on web sites, I'm sure a large
proportion would answer "No" (no facts to back this up.).
And as for saving web pages, yes, I have done that, usually so that I
can pinch a picture, but cannot recall the last time I've needed to send
a complete web page to anyone (I know, I know, just because I've never
needed it, doesn't mean others may not have a need......!).
Daniel
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