Re: HTML should not be a file format, but an output format
nemo/Joel N. Weber II (devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
Sat, 22 Mar 1997 19:42:42 -0500 (EST)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 19:42:42 -0500 (EST)
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From: "nemo/Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
To: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
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Subject: Re: HTML should not be a file format, but an output format
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 19:16:26 -0500
From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
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nemo/Joel N. Weber II wrote:
> So I conclude that something standard like HTML is a great storage format.
Something standard, yes. HTML, no. If HTML is such a perfect storage
format why are you hesitating at converting your documents into it?
HTML is not exactly perfect for word processing.
But HTML is perfect for the web.
> But I don't see why one file == one page ever causes lossage on the web.
It doesn't. It is just inconvenient. File breakup of information never
causes lossage -- files can always be "cat"ted. One file per page in a
DTP program wouldn't cause lossage either: the word processor would just
have to manage overflow from one page to another by shifting the
overflow of one file to another. But that would be inconvenient, just as
one file per page is inconvenient on the Web.
I still don't see why one file per page is inconvinient on the web.