Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/27/19:41:47
Alaric B. Williams wrote:
> Hmmm. Well, the problem with HTML is that an html "document" really lives
> in several files, due to all the graphics and stuff. Apart from that, it's
> a fine markup language; we will need a standard covering the exact means of
> compressing an entire HTML document into a .zip - the name of the
> root html file in the .zip should be index.htm, filenames should be 8.3
> for legacy reasons (people won't be seeing the filenames used in the .zip
anyway,
> so pretty LFNs aren't really necessary).
>
> One problem is that HTML graphics must currently be in raster format (.GIF,
.JPG,
> .PNG, etc). A vector graphics format would be a MAJOR boon. If an OpenDOS
system
> web browser could support a nice vector format (CGM? WMF? Homegrown), the
> documentation could use that, and a standard utility could render a vector
> graphic into a .PNG to make a "portable" but also "larger" HTML file.
Hey! These are really good ideas. Is anyone writing this down?
(besides the maillist archive software?)
Here's what I glean:
- standardized archive format for multiple HTML pages to solve
the "lots of small files" problem (.zip would work)
- there should be some conventions about the files in the archive
- 8.3 names for non-LFN systems
- should contain INDEX.HTML as cover page for document set
- document hyperlinks should be self-contained and use
relative URLs to avoid hard-coding paths (except for URLS
which actually refer to remote pages)
- would be nice to have some meta-formats that could be exploded
to formats acceptable to web browsers
- convert from a vector format to raster (.PNG) format
Tim Bird
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