Re: HTML should not be a file format, but an output format

On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Paul Prescod wrote:
> > But I don't see why one file == one page ever causes lossage on the web.
> 
> It doesn't. It is just inconvenient. File breakup of information never
> causes lossage -- files can always be "cat"ted. One file per page in a
> DTP program wouldn't cause lossage either: the word processor would just
> have to manage overflow from one page to another by shifting the
> overflow of one file to another. But that would be inconvenient, just as
> one file per page is inconvenient on the Web.

Not to mention the difficulty in defining "page"... ;)
(Boy, we had some long threads on that!)

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Received on Saturday, 22 March 1997 19:51:01 UTC