Re: "People should not write HTML"

John C. Mallery <JCMa@wilson.ai.mit.edu> wrote:

>     Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 09:05 EST
>     From: michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson)
> 
>     >People should not be writing html; programs should.
> 
>     Excuse me? That's a load of hooey if I ever heard one. 
> No WYSIWYG editors?  Microsoft is coming.....

Yes, but just because GUI editors exist doesn't mean
that everyone should have to use them.  Given a choice 
between using vi on a Unix box and using anything from 
Microsoft on a PC, I for one will stick with vi :-)

> [...] I've got my own abstractions so
> whatever level of empircism is wedged into the standards will never get in my
> way.

That's probably the best approach.  I rarely use
HTML markup for any important data; it's better to use a
DTD that encodes information relevant to a particular
type of document and down-translate it to HTML for presentation.
That's what HTML is for, after all...


--Joe English

  jenglish@crl.com

Received on Monday, 12 December 1994 20:07:02 UTC