[whatwg] Client-side includes proposal
Elliotte Harold
elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Wed Aug 20 07:43:05 PDT 2008
Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Elliotte Harold wrote:
>>> In the case of non-Web content, the use of HTML is an academic point,
>>> since any format would work as well.
>> Really? Why? and how? That's certainly not self-evident.
>
> When you control the software used to read the data, it doesn't matter
> what the data format is.
>
Who says you control the software used to read the data? I often want to
send documents around via e-mail, network mounts, ÇDs, and other
non-network means. I usually don't care and don't want to care what
platform or software is used to read those documents. I certainly don't
wnt to have to supply such software to people I'm communicating with.
HTML works very nicely for me here. Software independence is a very good
idea, and hardly unique to the Web.
Admittedly, there have been a lot of software dependent document formats
over the last 20-30 years. That was a mistake that hopefully we are now
recovering from.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu
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