- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:03:41 -0500 (EST)
- To: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
- Cc: W3C-SGML-WG@w3.org
> >But we already KNOW the cost of kluges. They are _expensive_. DynaWeb is > >_expensive_. DTD-specific converters are _expensive_. Panorama is expensive > >because most of your users will never download it, and your information will > >be lost. If these kluges were cheap, I would wait a few years for the > >network to speed up, and processors to speed up and would just put raw SGML > >on the Web. > > I wouldn't call any of these kludges... They are kludges in that they are short-term measures while we wait for the deployment of ubiquitous generic markup browsers with features more like those of SoftQuad's Explorer and EBT's DynaText - generic markup native, Web-native. I suspect that some form of smart SGML server will always exist, but it will not always serve such "dumb" clients. Paul Prescod
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