Attributed Meowbot wrote:
> Adam James Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>And often enough the poster hasn't written anything that actually
>>*requires* HTML markup - it's just plain text anyway.
>
> I even see some posters go to great lengths to make their HTML look
> like plain text, including monospaced type and 80-column lines (no,
> not <pre>, but an incredible simulation).
Probably in an attempt to appease the plain-text pussies. ;)
> OTOH, I've seen a few times where HTML actually did improve the
> presentation. These have all been longish, dense text -- the examples
> I recall have all been CFPs, abstracts or legal notices. For
> discussion groups, the composition software tends to toss in way too
> many gratuiutous elements.
Presentation is what HTML is all about. How can anyone not want to have
a tool that has the potential to augment their attempts at communication?
How many web sites do you see in plain-text?
We have all heard the pussy that goes by the name Fluffy expound the
scripture that usenet is not the web... ad nauseam... etc., etc. Are we
talking about bandwidth here? Do we still have people connecting at 300
bps?
> One feature that would actually offer an improvement over the current
> quoting and references scheme is <blockquote cite=...> (and the <q>
> version), except that no mainstream browsers seem to actually bother
> interpreting the cite attribute.
Assuming improvement is the goal.
