Re: Email library/API

["Ben FrantzDale" <frantb rpi edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: joel reed <joelreed@yahoo.com>
To: <gnome-devel-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Email library/API


> 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.

I think the difference is this: A markup language controls what's what.
What's bold, what's in a table, etc. (ala TeX?).  A layout lanugage says:
the first letter is 12 pts. high, is 72 pts. from the top of the page, 40
pts. from the left and it looks _exactly_ like:___

HTML is plenty for email, though I guess XML is more... extencable.

--Ben

>
> 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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