[93] in World Wide Web
Re: Spaces outside PRE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Janssen)
Mon Jun 14 19:55:34 1993
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 16:52:08 PDT
From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
To: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
In-Reply-To: <199306142157.AA17394@ora.com>
Excerpts from ext.WorldWideWeb: 14-Jun-93 Re: Spaces outside PRE Terry
Allen@ora.com (558)
> I must have some way of indicating
> to the application where I want white space, or I do not have
> sufficient control over the formatting of my documents.
Sorry, you're not supposed to have control over the formatting of your
documents, in the sense that I think you mean. (I may be
misinterpreting your meaning; could you say a bit more about why
"whitespace in general is *not* purely presentational"?) There are
plenty of formats that support that kind of thing; there's no need to
turn HTML into yet-another-bastardized-procedural-markup format.
I think it's pretty clear, though, that there's a lot of desire for
browsers like XMosaic to support both HTML and one or more additional
procedural formats, such as TeX or MS-Word.
Bill
