Sebastian Rahtz writes: > > So how does the hypertex protocol work together with other protocols, > > like embedded PS or non-GIF pictures? Does every protocol invent its own > > syntax to identify itself? >there *is* no protocol for embedded PS or non-GIF, so what are you >getting at So it's ok to make a hyperlink around some embedded PS (EPSF) or a non-GIF picture using the standard hypertex, then? > > Well, the HTML standard is evolving, and one would then want to have >oh you think its a `standard'.... My Merriam Webster's dictionary defines the word "standard" as "having qualities or attributes established by custom". Thinking of it, yes, I think it applies to HTML. :-) >sensible people like TeXxies [1] should be plugging XML I think we are now getting to the old moral question of telling other people what they should do; the problem since the dawn of the civilisation has been that other people seem to not bother. How about a more informative comment about XML? :-) > > access to the new hyperlink features, but not the markup features. So one > > would really want to work with a hyperlink protocol, and not HTML. >which is exactly what we have. the fact that the tags start `html' >does not imply that random HTML after them is acceptable. I figure the idea is that an underpaid Philippino worker is extracting the new hyperlink features from HTML... >[1] i am famous for my irony Or infamous. :-) Hans Aberg * AMS member: Listing <http://www.ams.org/cml/> * Email: Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]>