- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 14:23:17 +0100
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Daniel Glazman wrote: > > I think we miss one principle about the ubiquity of HTML. HTML is not > only used in web browsers. It's used in email In the view of many (most ?), HTML is /abused/ in e-mail. E-mail is about the communication of information, and can invariably best be accomplished using text/plain. > and there are more > HTML-based email authors than Web page authors, it's used to design and > print books, I known that Hakon Wium Lie & Bert Bos recently produced a book using HTML, but I wonder how many more books have been produced using technology that still only barely addresses the real needs of high-quality book design and typesetting. > it's used for messages in interserver communications. Where XML would almost certainly be a better choice. > Editability of HTML is also a key issue. Designing cool and powerful > features is one thing, making them editable and therefore reachable by > the masses is another one. What does "editability" mean here (genuine question) ? Are you referring to the ability of an HTML author to define, on the fly, a new dialect of HTML (which proposal I would strongly support), or the ability of a person X to change something written in HTML by person Y, or yet something else ? Philip Taylor
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