- From: Scott Penrose <scottp@dd.com.au>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:41:41 +1100
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think simplicity is very important. Maybe it can be measured in how long it takes to write an app to support the protocol or format. At the moment you can write a basic HTTP server that works with all browsers in a day. HTML renderer is a little more complicated, but if you are happy with text, you can also do that as an individual in days of time (a subset of course). What I like to see in a protocol/format is the ability for it to be simple and have optional additional complexity, but be backwards compatible for both client and server. HTML attempts to do this, and succeeds if people follow the rules. You can have the most advanced javascript application that can still run on the simplest of text only browsers. I don't know, maybe the ability to keep it backwards compatible for simple and complex browsers and servers actually adds complexity. BTW. I love that I can write into my embedded apps a simple web server that generates some simple HTML and point any browser at it. It is an fantastic feature that must be maintained. Scott - --- Scott Penrose Open source and Linux Developer http://linux.dd.com.au/ scottp@dd.com.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (Darwin) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8M7baDCFCcmAm26YRApBbAJ93Bnlbqf9Cv/7gmrH7qZ0bIslCLQCfRNsH mVJ7huvrPepb3CWvuzVMIpc= =cG8b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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