Re: what is FLAPON & PROPFIND ?

Dave J Woolley wrote:
>
> > From: Mike Batchelor [SMTP:mbatchelor@citysearch.com]
> >
> > HTTP is becoming the catch-all tunnel for all sorts of unsavory,
> > poorly-thought-out applications. It was a mistake to allow for
> > extensions
> >
> Unfortunately this happens to nearly all protocols, file
> formats and programming languagues; they start off being
> compact, and well targetted, but they all tend to converge
> to the same capability because the market wants what is
> fashionable, and wants a one tool does all approach.
>
> In the web, Postscript is unfashionable, because it is old,
> even though it would be a better way of getting the explicit
> control of formatting craved by most commercial site designers.

Of course, HTML wasn't intended to give explicit control of formatting.
The approach was maximum portability at the cost of explicit control.
Now we look like we're leaning the other way.

D
Received on Mon Jun 07 1999 - 15:41:46 MDT