- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 16:13:14 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 4:12p -0400 08/29/97, Jordan Reiter wrote:
> At 7:09 PM -0000 8/29/97, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> >At 9:36a -0400 08/29/97, jptxs wrote:
> > > At 05:04 PM 8/28/97 -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> > > >How about some sort of "geek code" (but not as geeky) where we
enumerate
> > > >what the page uses, something like:
> > > >
> > > > Level 0: does not use
> > > > Level 1: optional
> > > > Level 2: required
> > > > Y: yes/true
> > > > N: no/false
> > > > *: any
> > >
> > > but how well would something like this degrade...
> >
> >It's meant for disclosure to *humans*. Displayed on the page as content. :)
>
> Hmmm... I think I've actually seen this before. I think it's commonly
> parsed as
> "This web page best used with [Netscape (2.0, 3.0, 4.0); Internet Explorer
> ]"!
Oh, you missed my intention completely. :/
It's meant to be a sort of "Get Info" about what to expect from a site,
so people will know whether it's worth enduring. Visible metadata, sorta.
Maybe it is too geeky after all... ;)
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