RE: Netscape, XyWrite, and the Media

[Peter Brown pbrown@xxxxxxxx]

Maybe the guys (I do mean guys) who used to punch paper tape had it right in
the first place. It won't be news to many on this list, but the whole idea
of embedded codes goes back substantially before XyWrite (or ATEX). I
remember entering "bell" codes on paper tape to drive an electromechanical
phototypesetter during the night shift at a photocomposition job shop; the
code to "turn off" earlier formatting and go back to the original default
was "bell X", if memory serves. It wouldn't surprise me to learn the same
ideas were used to format in teletyping and hot metal composition.

In that context it's certainly amusing to hear HTML described as the latest
new thing.

Peter Brown

pbrown@xxxxxxxx



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Richard Giering [SMTP:dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Saturday, February 26, 2000 10:32 PM
> To:	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: Netscape, XyWrite, and the Media
>
> Do m'arigato komenazie, Rene'
>  I couldn't have said it better -
> Frank and NOTA BENE staff - are you listening???
> DG
>
> "Yo Intl." wrote:
> >
> > At 12:08 PM 2/26/00 -0600, Richard Giering wrote:
> > 
> > > Its sad that they are so close to being what an
> > >HTML editor should be, but (like your IBM example)
> > >there appears to be nonone in either organization
> > >willing to hear suggestions or to consider this
> >
> > I mentioned exactly this before, but KF, in one of his
> > rare appearances, said that there are fundamental differences
> > between the XY and HTML formats. I still do not understand
> > why; to my non-programmer mind it seems that the 
> > and  tags in XY4 are the same as the slash on/off
> > codes in HTML. Maybe somebody more computer literate
> > can explain?
> >
> > Seeing how everybody left and right suddenly learns HTML,
> > which is so close to XYwrite in its philosophy, it seems to lake
> > shame to me that TTG does not jump on the chance to create
> > the world's best HTML editor.
> > But if the boss says no, then that is it.
> >
> > -- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo