- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:43:05 -0700
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Elliotte Harold wrote: >>> In the case of non-Web content, the use of HTML is an academic point, >>> since any format would work as well. >> Really? Why? and how? That's certainly not self-evident. > > When you control the software used to read the data, it doesn't matter > what the data format is. > Who says you control the software used to read the data? I often want to send documents around via e-mail, network mounts, ?Ds, and other non-network means. I usually don't care and don't want to care what platform or software is used to read those documents. I certainly don't wnt to have to supply such software to people I'm communicating with. HTML works very nicely for me here. Software independence is a very good idea, and hardly unique to the Web. Admittedly, there have been a lot of software dependent document formats over the last 20-30 years. That was a mistake that hopefully we are now recovering from. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Refactoring HTML Just Published! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321503635/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA
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