[6455] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Structured text v. page descriptions (was Netscape, HTML, and
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Un)
Mon Oct 31 13:23:19 1994
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 11:15:17 +0100
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From: lilley@v5.cgu.mcc.ac.uk (Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Unit)
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Nick Arnett said:
> There's a Unix viewer.
> There is a SPARC binary for Solaris 2.2. That, as I have said before, is not
quite the same thing. People who choose to distribute software as binaries only
should make their software available on several platforms; espacially if they
seek to make thier software ubiquitous.
> It's available at www.adobe.com; we have pointers
> to it from our public server, too. It's the 1.0 version, I think.
It is, indeed, one major version behind the Mac and MS-Windows versions.
> Maybe we've all given up on a broader concept -- user interface consistency
> at the O/S level...?
In an ideal world, yes, getting a Web browser would effectively mean getting an
O/S extension so all your applications can now read HTML and follow the links,
etc. Adding PDF capability would be a similar process. I'm not sure it was even
that simple on the NeXT, which I believe came closest.
--
Chris
