Re: HTML should not be a file format, but an output format

• From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
• Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:05:35 -0400
• To: www-html@w3.org
• Message-ID: <33537D1F.6C9AAD64@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

BruceLeban@akimbo.com wrote:
> HTML may not be a file format, but as a practical matter you must
> recognize that most people store one HTML entity per file and lots of
> software won't deal with anything else. Maybe it shouldn't be that way,
> but it IS that way.

We're about to come full circle. Abigail pointed out that this is not a
limitation of the HTML specification, but of current implementations.
That is exactly what you just said, so nobody disagrees with you.

 Paul Prescod

Received on Tuesday, 15 April 1997 10:19:19 UTC