Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:15:31 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: yeep <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
cc: "..Nissim.." <nchudnof AT mbhs DOT edu>, OpenDOS <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
In-Reply-To: <199703230057.BAA07350@magigimmix.xs4all.nl>
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On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, yeep wrote:

> > > OD faster than W95.
> > A good idea would be use a hypertext format like INFO but modify it to
> > allow the use of images/sound..or jsut HTML and compress it to save HD
> > space, and have help de-compress as needed
> 
> HTML is great!
> I've heard Windows 97 will be using it instead of the normal Windows help.
> And the driver stuff is also very cool, kinda like X-windows Window
> Managers.

Yes, I must agree.  Due to the popularity of the WWW, and of the
GUI browsers that are out there, I recommend that all future
online documentation for OpenDOS (or anything else for that
matter) be distributed as HTML.  A normal browser could read it
then.  The only thing that really needs to be thought about is
how the compression/decompression of the HTML is going to work to
save space.  The browser will probably have to be modified to
accept a type something like:

Content-type: octet-stream/html-zip

Or something like that.  Then UNZIP is called transparently and
the page is viewed.

What does everyone else think? 

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