- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:19:29 -0400
- To: abigail@fnx.com
- CC: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>, www-html@w3.org
Abigail wrote: > Then you might as well use an inline gif. That will reach more users. > (I'd love to see MATH, but I'm not turning Java on for it). But both > an inline image and a java applet are 100% presentation, there's not > structual information. The latter is not true. Java applets are computer programs. They take input and transform it into presentation and allow interaction. But the input to a Java applet can be as structural (or presentational) as you like. Of course the *output* of the Java applet is not structural, but neither is the output of a browser! What matters is input: the document that comes across the Web. The Java applet provides a convenient way of rendering that input without kidnapping Marc Andreeson or blackmailing Bill Gates. Paul Prescod
Received on Sunday, 13 April 1997 17:05:39 UTC