Re: Structure v. pages (was Re: HTML+)

Ryan Bernard <rbernard@was.waii.com> asked:
> Why not just take the Mosaic code and add editing capabilities to it?  Mosaic
> is a tool designed to take raw data in HTML format and display it on-screen
> as a WYSIWYG document.  

See tkWWW for an example of what you get if you confuse a browser and editor.
See SoftQuad HoTMetaL for an example of a pure HTML editor.

There are lots of differences, one of which is that you need a different
kind of data stucture internally.

Lee

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SoftQuad HoTMetaL: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:Web/html/hotmetal, and also doc.ic.ac.uk:
packages/WWW/ncsa/..., gatekeeper.dec.com:net/infosys/Mosaic/contrib/SoftQuad/

Received on Thursday, 15 September 1994 22:48:12 UTC