Ian Hickson wrote:
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Elliotte Harold wrote:
In the case of non-Web content, the use of HTML is an academic point,
since any format would work as well.
Really? Why? and how? That's certainly not self-evident.
When you control the software used to read the data, it doesn't matter
what the data format is.
Who says you control the software used to read the data? I often want to
send documents around via e-mail, network mounts, ÇDs, and other
non-network means. I usually don't care and don't want to care what
platform or software is used to read those documents. I certainly don't
wnt to have to supply such software to people I'm communicating with.
HTML works very nicely for me here. Software independence is a very good
idea, and hardly unique to the Web.
Admittedly, there have been a lot of software dependent document formats
over the last 20-30 years. That was a mistake that hopefully we are now
recovering from.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Refactoring HTML Just Published!
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