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Subject:Re: Re[2]: Electronic File Transfer From:scot <scot -at- HCI -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:43:22 +1100
>>For those users, Acrobat might be considered acceptable "neutral
>>territory."
>HTML is a far more neutral, and now a perfectly viable option (as long
>people don't start going crazy on Netscrap-proprietary tags).
Agreed. Also, as HTML 3.0 is a form of SGML, it concentrates on the
-structure of the information held-, not the formatting of output as Acrobat
and similar products do.
You have to allow from everything from 14" VGA screens to people with large
multisyncs and 1600 * 1200 24 bit displays. By using HTML/SGML, and allowing
the actual output format to be determined by the software at the user's end,
you mainly escape these types of problem. IMHO.
