Carroll, Diana C schrieb:
My 2 cents worth:
I think that whatever format is chosen, file size is an important
consideration. If you don't live/work in a major metropolitan area,
high-speed Internet connections are not available, and it can take
ridiculous amounts of time to download a single large .pdf or .doc file.
The IEEE standards are a good example, even on a high-speed connection,
downloading a single 200-page document takes several minutes. ASCII is
widely used because it is easy to generate, has very small file sizes,
and is viewable regardless of operating system or platform. Any
successor to ASCII needs to have similar qualities in order to be
successful.
GIF and PNG files are widely supported, but they also tend to be very
large files. At best, if these files are going to be included, they
need to be optional.
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 jre Kein 313253 Jun 18 20:38 rfc3253.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 jre Kein 406626 Jun 18 20:42 rfc3253.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jre Kein 160576 Jun 18 20:56 rfc3253.chm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jre Kein 413732 Jun 18 20:56 rfc3253.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 jre Kein 285569 Jun 19 18:18 rfc3253.txt
...by that measure we'd need to move to Microsoft Compiled Help Format,
right?
Best regards, Julian
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