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Subject:FW: The Death of RTF From:David Blyth <dblyth -at- QUALCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 10 Feb 1996 13:05:02 -0700
Arlen Walker says...
>It's bad enough that NetScape has been defining non-standard HTML tags. Anyone
>have any good ideas on how to handle the confusion once everyone starts
>extending HTML in different directions?
Learn HTML real well.
If you're building Web documents only, ignore Microsoft for about 1 year.
If you're building hard copy, ignore Microsoft for 2 years except for RTF.
Reevaluate at the end of 2 years.
David (The Man) Blyth
Technical Writer
Qualcomm
The usual disclaimers apply - I don't speak for QUALCOMM, they don't speak
for me....
