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Subject: 
Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:47:44 GMT
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mattdm@^Spamless^mattdm.org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
I'm a huge fan of Ted Nelson's transpublishing and transcopyright
philosophies.  I home someday they become feasable.

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 not have the EMBED tag let you
_embed anything_ arbitrarily? Like, another HTML document?

[ft: lugnet.off-topic.geek]


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  Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
 
(...) 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)
  Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
 
(...) 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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  Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
 
(...) I'm a huge fan of Ted Nelson's transpublishing and transcopyright philosophies. I home someday they become feasable. --Todd (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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