It was thus said that the Great Daniel Pittman once stated:
> "Tony Gies" <tony.g...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On 9/27/07, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
> >> ...you were going so well and then, suddenly...
> >
> > I think one of us is missing something here, because you appear
> > actually to be agreeing with me completely?
>
> One of us must be. Perhaps it was my sarcasm, perhaps I completely
> misunderstood your point. To help clear this up:
>
> There is no difference in the information conveyed using a child tag or
> an attribute of a tag.
>
> The only difference between the two, in SGML, is that attributes have
> less rules applied. They can, and often are, more informal.
>
> Their existing is a mistake. Their use is typically[1] a sign that the
> developer of the ML failed to understand the essential sameness of the
> two expressions /or/ decided that they wanted the lazy path.
So, you're saying you would rather have:
<p><a>I grew up reading Uncle Scrooge<href>2005/01/21.1</href></a>,
but by the time
<a><href>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Rosa</href>Don Rosa</a>
started drawing the comic, I had stopped reading comic books in
general. And while I had heard of Don Rosa as an Uncle Scrooge
artist, I had no idea <a>how good
<href>http://www.2719hyperion.com/2007/05/don-rosas-son-of-sun.html</href>he
was</a>, in both art and story.
Ick. Or does it go:
<p>
<a>
<href>2005/01/21.1</href>
<text>I grew up reading Uncle Scrooge</text>
</a>
<text>, but by the time </text>
<a>
<href>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Rosa</href>
<text>Don Rosa</text>
</a>
<text>
started drawing the comic, I had stopped reading comic books in
general. And while I had heard of Don Rosa as an Uncle Scrooge
artist, I had no idea
</text>
<a>
<text>how good he was</text>
<href>http://www.2719hyperion.com/2007/05/don-rosas-son-of-sun.html</href>
</a>
<text>, in both art and story.</text>
</p>
Hmmm ... Microsoft Word anyone?
> Then I wouldn't get to look at another home page with a picture of a
> kitten and an "under construction" animated GIF on it because we would
> all be using gopher and whittling our IP packets out of wood.
-spc (while still waiting for the hypertexty goodness of Xanadu?)
