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(...) Too many things validate as approximately HTML/4.0 compliant for that to be true. Besides, IMG is way too firmly entrenched. I don't think we'll ever root it out, unless we can provide a superior alternative (human nature being what it is, a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Of course. _Most_ Internet standards work this way. The initial standards documents are often descriptions of current in-use procedures. Or at least, a synthesis of such. But yeah, that doesn't mean they weren't shortsighted. :) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Because Netscape designers and programmers of the first hour were utterly clueless. The IMG tag was implemented first, and _then_ codified into RFC status. There was at the same time another type of tag for embedding everything in the works at (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's his email address. It's his _name_. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, we read it aloud, and it was enjoyable that way, in a group. I might not have enjoyed it as a solo read. (...) I'm trying to think of conventional sci fi that's laugh-out-loud-worthy. Peter David writes excellent laugh-worthy stuff (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's not. APPLET is depreciated, but IMG is still around. (...) I'll have to look at mozilla and see if it lets me include HTML. That'd make me happy. (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Actually, I believe the IMG tag is obsolescent. IIRC, you are now supposed to use OBJECT for everything. I don't know that it'll let you embed another HTML document, though. You can use inline frames to embed HTML documents, but AFAIK, they're (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) If he's ignored, it's because people insist on calling him pterry. Anyway, ignored by whom? Not this thread, to be sure. He left AFP for the right reason: too much garbage and nonsense floating around for it to be worth his while. And rightly (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) They seem feasible now from a technical standpoint. (Overlooking the bandwidth issue for the moment.) The problem is the banner-ad revenue model of the current commercial web -- if you can look at PS: why does HTML just have the IMG tag? Why (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) :) You don't like them? The second one is so-so, but the first one is awesome. But it's not particularly science fiction, so it probably doesn't belong in this discussion anyway. (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh, let's do. (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Heh. Where am I gonna get 72-pin FPRAM modules these days? I mean, okay, I have 32M lying around, but that's gonna have to go into the P166 I also have lying around. (...) Ah, is that it.. I must admit I've never delved very deeply into KDE. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah. But that's not the problem - 1G constant acceleration is utterly impossible with current tech. (...) Quite possibly. (...) And when the Shuttle solid-fuel-booster blows, you get what? I don't think any of us are going to forget that day (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That was _satire_? Oh, the embarassment. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:07:31 GMT, "Selçuk <teyyareci>" <sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote: <451F's got everything a book needs> (...) Yup ;) (...) There's a movie? (...) Probably because everyone thinks he's a hack, or something. Whyfor is pterry (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Huh? Standard rockets carry all the fuel they need -- no air required. That's mostly what we've been using way up there, from the start. (...) But rockets aren't about efficient production of energy, they are about the efficient *storage* and (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) smart- (...) once (...) 24- (...) Thanks for the clarification! (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, that was (assumed? implied? you choose) in the question. See Todd's solution, (URL) Steve (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I have another ignorant question, relating to a half-remembered tidbit from my Chem1 class in high school, way back when the periodic table consisted of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. I seem to remember something about diamond reverting (my (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, a form of carbon called Diamond would do the trick. But what do you attach to the diamond is still a problem, as it is an excelent heat conductor and would melt most materials you attach to it. Pat Justison (1.5 years until PhD in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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