- From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 06:41:05 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Jari K Ollikainen wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Harold wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be nice to have these tags: <NOPRINT> </NOPRINT>. With > > everything in between filtered out when the page is printed out. So > > it could be used to stop navigation bars (usually placed above and > > below the page content) from being printed. It would probably save > > quite a lot of paper. > > I agree, but why just <NOPRINT> why not as well <NOSOURCE>??? Because one is a reasonable advisory to web browsers "in a printed format this wouldn't make sense" while the other suggests a fundamental mis-understanding of both HTML and HTTP? I don't even need a _web browser_ to view HTML source code. It would be doing a dis-service to authors to mislead them into believing they could 'hide' their HTML source code from people. They can't - and *NO* HTML tag will ever change that. Even *compiled* languages like Java can be reverse compiled to source code with off the shelf tools. -- Benjamin Franz
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