- From: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 09:23:42 -0800
- To: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Cc: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>, www-archive@w3.org
* Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org> [2016-01-08 11:12+0100] > > On 08 Jan 2016, at 00:14, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net> wrote: > > Yves, > > > > By any chance, do you have the memory of who created the comma tools at W3C? > > aka the ability to add to any URI of W3C Web site > > > > http://w3.org/,tools > > and have the list of possible tools. > > My best bet would be Gerald, so Cc:ed him for confirmation. Yes, I made the first one (,text), announced on Mar 18 1998. The idea was based on something I had implemented elsewhere to provide automatic .txt versions of HTML pages: From: gerald@impressive.net (Gerald Oskoboiny) Subject: Automagic .txt versions of HTML pages (was Re: [Q] How to force a html page to a text version) Date: 1997/11/18 Message-ID: <64t9fg$88u@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>#1/1 Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix -- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html/6FWCbh9h078/aP30ZteDYggJ We couldn't use .txt for this purpose on W3C's site due to its use of content negotiation. The ,tools page with the list of comma tools was added a year or two later. -- Gerald Oskoboiny http://www.w3.org/People/Gerald/ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/ tel:+1-604-906-1232 mailto:gerald@w3.org
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