- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 22:40:10 +0200
- To: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
David Perrell wrote: > > I've been presented with the following logic: > > PostScript is a publishing standard. Yes. Well, a page description standard. > SGML is a document markup standard. Yes > HTML is a document markup language. Implemented in SGML. Yes. > Therefore, PostScript is out of the picture. Doesn't follow. To add to your logic: PostScript became standardised by ISO, who called it SPDL. This has three encodings - a compact ASN.1 encoding, a clear text encoding (whjich looks exactly like PostScript) and an SGML encoding. SGML can be used for lots of things, including implementing a page description language. > I've been told that those who worked on SGML may have "considered > ramifications that you and I are completely unaware of." No doubt. And > vice versa, apparently. ;-) -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA/W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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