New Version Notification for draft-murata-kohn-lilley-xml-03

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Wed Sep 30 11:50:53 CEST 2009


On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:35:30 +0200, Paul Libbrecht <paul at activemath.org>  
wrote:
> Le 29-sept.-09 à 12:32, Anne van Kesteren a écrit :
>> Plenty of other formats violate this rule too. Formats like HTML and
>> CSS. It seems that if the Web's more successful formats all violate
>> this rule in practice, we should fix the rule. Rough consensus and
>> running code, right?
>
> The trouble is to consider HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as text documents
> or?
>
> My Apple's TextEdit does not show me HTML as text.. it's an exception.
> It would do so with CSS, because it has no other idea but maybe one
> day it will (import this into my "style inspector"?).
>
> None of these should be called text, that's pretty clear for the ideal
> world or?

To me they all seem text-based formats. As opposed to say JPEG.


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Anne van Kesteren
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