At 12:11 PM 11/18/94, Steve Dorner wrote:
If the real criterion is human legibility, then let's make that the ruling
criterion, not the markup language it happens to be expressed in.
What a novel idea. Do we leave it entirely free and just caution senders
that they need to make things 'pretty' or do we try to write some sort of
operational definition for pretty?
Perhaps using an HTML subset as our "basic" rich text format makes more
sense now than it did two years ago.
Without offering an opinion about it's wonderful, I'm feeling compelled to
agree with the statistical assessment. I believe HTML has won this
particular battle and maybe war.
--------------------
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg Consulting Phone: +1 408 246 8253
675 Spruce Dr. Fax: +1 408 249 6205
Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Email:
dcrocker(_at_)mordor(_dot_)stanford(_dot_)edu