- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 01 Apr 1997 03:14:01 +0100
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 13:39 31/03/97 -0500, Paul Prescod wrote:
[...]
>alternative Perl program is *difficult*, but I can see an implementation
>cost, and I can't see the usability benefit in allowing people to put
>more than one per line.
Just a whole lot easier to edit if the FPIs and URLs are long and you
have to do the editing via a VT100 screen, emulator, or edit window on
a machine with very coarse dot-density, where very little fits on a line.
Plus it's a whole lot more readable as
PUBLIC "verylongfooverylongfooverylongfooverylongfooverylongfooverylongfoo"
"equallylongbarequallylongbarequallylongbarequallylongbarequallylongbar"
I just found that one of the pieces of SGML middleware I am evaluating
comes with a neat but underdeveloped SOCAT editor for Windoze. I am trying
to persuade them that this would be a very nice freebie if they wanted
something to keep their image in front of people, and provide a public
service at the same time. Just needs a little more attention, is all.
Mind you, it wouldn't be hard to pop up a Java one, either...but that
would raise problems writing to your hard disk.
///Peter
Received on Monday, 31 March 1997 21:13:16 UTC