From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.bbs-scene.org!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:39:26 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Text_IO, was: Re: Something I don't understand Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 21:39:29 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: <6dqag9t8kleaf5jtf4qv9387oq2mrrvvub@4ax.com> References: <13cmx8lollig2.1ic40x57wows8$.dlg@40tude.net> <1mh0lp04e4bzc.vr6hi3fcbba5.dlg@40tude.net> <7gb1iv15zuh$.1qbeifwuyvuoa.dlg@40tude.net> <5304cfc5$0$9515$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.73.117.108 X-Trace: sv3-sfQlhvgYApW6BcMvADcEUj9ZbZjmY9Yp1mXcW5GdRhfWLsZE/tC0Tro7KaqDb4W/Mbf6XJuM/buuwny!om+jTxMlMG7/JC2heketa0u4L/K7xHEyFffNt16syDsAYPygH/Zs0W1/rgaxNgIVWcMqt1BphADD!eOxgeNjZl1C5lvxGEoK0Ouy/jaCZ X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3009 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:18693 Date: 2014-02-19T21:39:29-05:00 List-Id: On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:37:42 +0100, Georg Bauhaus 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 -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/