- From: Abigail <abigail@ny.fnx.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 17:05:14 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Tom Magliery wrote:
++
++ "This page best viewed with" is an ironic step backwards in document
++ interchangeability. Before The Web, that information was given out using
++ only 4 bytes of data, not 30 or 40. And it appeared in the document's
++ meta-information -- the filename -- not in the body of the document itself,
++ so it was usually easier to get to. ".DOC" was (and still is) quite a
++ convenient way to say "This page best viewed with Microsoft Word."
Someone quoted TBL recently in c.i.w.a.html:
Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a
Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on
another computer, another word processor, or another network.
[Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996]
Abigail
Received on Wednesday, 16 October 1996 17:17:44 UTC