- From: Ian S. Graham <igraham@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 95 16:12:25 EST
- To: bjoerns@acm.org (Bjoern Stabell)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
> > Ian S. Graham writes: > ] I like this example also, but -- having initiated this whole INS/DEL=20 > ] discussion, would like to point out that computer code is not the=20 > ] only place this INS/DEL is relevant -- in fact, > ] code is probably the least important, in the long run. My particular > ] interest was for legal or other text documents, where the reader needs=20 > ] to see the insertions and deletions marked appropriately (struck out,=20 > ] highlighted, etc) so I *need* information about the differences present= > =20 > ] in some way in the document itself. I also want these differences=20 > > the document, in this case, is the RCS file (,v), and that contains > all the information you want, probably lots more, but that's mostly good. > Yes, this is all true, but does this scale to japanese text, unicode character sets, multilingual environments, etc. This is what I mean by long term, and I don't think RCS is necessarily or easiliy extensible for these environments. I still think the RCS idea is good -- I'm simply not convinced that it is the best long-term solution for a fully internationalized web. Ian -- Ian Graham .................................... igraham@hprc.utoronto.ca Information Commons University of Toronto
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