"Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today already > comes with an HTML renderer (AKA browser)
No, they don't. Minimalist Unix distributions don't include a browser by default. I know the BSD's don't, and suspect that gentoo Linux doesn't. HTML is designed to degrade gracefully (never mind that most web authors and many browser developers don't seem to comprehend this), so you don't really need a "subset" html to get the safety features you want. All you need to do is disable the appropriate features in the HTML renderer in your news and mail readers. JavaScript, Java, and any form of object embedding. Oh yeah, and frames. No problem. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
