HTML terseness/verbosity
Jim Davis (davis@willow.tc.cornell.edu)
Mon, 8 Jun 92 09:28:20 EDT
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 92 09:28:20 EDT
From: davis@willow.tc.cornell.edu (Jim Davis)
Message-Id: <9206081328.AA17632@willow.tc.cornell.edu>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: HTML terseness/verbosity
Re the recent comments on terseness of UDIs and the
extra verbosity in Dan Connolly's proposal to
use Mime for WWW documents:
My understanding is that nobody should have to type
"naked" SGML (or HTML or Mime-language) anyway.
We should have programs like WYSIWYG editors
manipulating the markup for us. (Now of course
at present we do have to type HTML, at least I do
here, but hopefully this will not persist). If
that's right, then the more explicit and simple
the document structure is, the easier to parse
and manipulate by programs, the better we are.
One thing I like about Dan's proposal - it makes
it possible to collect a hyperdocument into a single
file (by embedding the docs within one mime file)
which will make transporting easier