Phil M wrote: > Actually, especially when I find people working at MathML, I wonder why > html ever got written at all. All the world ever really needed was a TeX > browser -- then everything on print and screen could have been done from > the same source. the same thing occurred to me when I learned about TeX... why ever did the HTML authors rewrite a perfectly good system? I suspect they thought they could do it better; or they didn't know enough about TeX (unlikely); or had personal issues with the TeX people. HTML ended up as a 'good enough' solution when it was concieved; but in the long run, it hasn't been used in anything like the way it was conceived. (it's far more graphical, far more localized [the orginal idea was that you could combine images and text from all over the web on one site, rather than serving them all up yourself], and far more commercial, than the authors ever envisioned). for that matter, why not use PostScript with some hyperlinking extensions? (other than the nasty licensing issues). who would need JavaScript, when that functionality could be built into the source of the page itself? (if you can write a web server in PostScript, I suspect it has a lot of the functionality of JavaScript. feel free to prove me wrong. ;> ) Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org