- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 05:45:40 -0700 (PDT)
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 14 May 2003, David Woolley wrote: > > That a distinction is perceived is probably the result of high profile > web sites really being application programs or advertising artwork, > not documents containing information. From that point of view, there > should probably be at least three standards (although I might argue > that the PDF/SVG family line is more suited to advertising artwork, and > has been throughout the whole life of the web). These are a language > for straightforward information documents; a language for thin client > application programs and a language for advertising copy. I completely agree that we need a language for Web applications. HTML is not at all appropriate for such work, as I have become intimately aware in my work with sites such as voidwars.com. I mentioned this on http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1047073783&count=1 -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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