- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:04:15 -0500
- To: combee@sso-austin.sps.mot.com (Ben Combee)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
In message <9512181558.AA14083@sso-austin cliffy.sps.mot.com>, Ben Combee write s: > >Rather than extend HTML again (I'm a bit of a minimalist here), Yeah verily! Fight the good fight, my man! > why not >expand the valid content types for WWW browsers/tools to include something >like application/x-rcs. Reasons for this: > >* The file format exists and is well documented. >* A large code base exists for handling these files. >* RCS, being outside of SGML, can handle changes without funny DTD tricks. >* This easily handles lots of levels of changes, not just the one level > that a simple <INS>/<DEL> or CLASS="added"/"deleted" would have >* A browser that could graphically show RCS changes would be a killer app > for revision control enthusiasts. I'm sold. Anybody with time to hack this up? You could probably score big in one of the Java applet contests. (Is there a python applet contest? Safe-Tcl?) Dan
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