* Yves Lafon <yla...@w3.org> [2016-01-08 11:12+0100]
> > On 08 Jan 2016, at 00:14, Karl Dubost <k...@la-grange.net> wrote:
> > Yves,
> >
> > By any chance, do you have the memory of who created the comma tools at W3C?
> > aka the ability to add to any URI of W3C Web site
> >
> > http://w3.org/,tools
> > and have the list of possible tools.
>
> My best bet would be Gerald, so Cc:ed him for confirmation.
Yes, I made the first one (,text), announced on Mar 18 1998.
The idea was based on something I had implemented elsewhere to
provide automatic .txt versions of HTML pages:
From: ger...@impressive.net (Gerald Oskoboiny)
Subject: Automagic .txt versions of HTML pages (was Re: [Q] How to force a
html page to a text version)
Date: 1997/11/18
Message-ID: <64t9fg$8...@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>#1/1
Newsgroups:
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
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https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html/6FWCbh9h078/aP30ZteDYggJ
We couldn't use .txt for this purpose on W3C's site due to its
use of content negotiation.
The ,tools page with the list of comma tools was added a year or
two later.
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Gerald Oskoboiny http://www.w3.org/People/Gerald/
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/
tel:+1-604-906-1232 mailto:ger...@w3.org
