Re: Email library/API

[joel reed <joelreed yahoo com>]

from
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/intro/intro.html#h-2.2
we read...

To publish information for global distribution, one
needs a universally understood language, a kind of
publishing
mother tongue that all computers may potentially
understand. The publishing language used by the World
Wide
Web is HTML (from HyperText Markup Language). 

perhaps publishing language != layout language in your
psyche, but in mine it does.

jr

--- Olof Oberg <mill@pedgr571.sn.umu.se> wrote:
> joel reed wrote: 
> > --- Olof Oberg <mill@pedgr571.sn.umu.se> wrote:
> > > HTML is not a layout language. 
> > 
> > wrong.
> Ditto.
> 
> [snip]
> > > Misusing HTML like this only helps spreading the
> > > idea that 
> > > HTML is a way to exchange visual formatting in a
> > > 'platform 
> > > independant way'.
> > 
> > that's exactly what it is for.
> Umm, no it isn't. Nothing visual about HTML.
> 
> On a handheld text-only device (for example) your
> visual formatting 
> has no relevance other than making it harder to get
> to the meaning 
> of the information.
 


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