Re: Text_IO, was: Re: Something I don't understand

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:37:42 +0100, Georg Bauhaus
<rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> declaimed the following:

>
>The normal use case for HTML is when there are at least
>two computer systems involved:
>
>(1)  one sending documents (->), and receiving requests (<-),
>   ??????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????
>(2)  one receiving documents (<-), and sending requests (->),
>
>such that each of them is controlled exclusively by
>different parties. There is no dispatching, because
>a common dispatcher is an impossible part of the setup.
>(IOW, the possibility is only a mathematical one, whenever
>it refuses to include earthly constraints of the setup.)
>
	Uhm... That defines HTTP.

>The media types of CSS will allow an HTML processor to render
>the same HTML on a number of different devices. Still, no MD.
>

	And I still prefer the original concept of HTML -- being a mark-up
language defining /what/ was provided, but the rendering was totally up to
the browser. My first graphical browser actually allowed the user to set
font specifications for /each/ HTML element (H1 could be rendered in Gothic
Blackletter, H2 in an Uncial, H3 in san serif italic, H4 in serif, ...).

	CSS is an evil trying to turn HTML into a page-layout language... If
one really needs that much control over the document -- ship it as a PDF
<G>

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