Re: XyWrites 4 and 5 (was: RE: Dataviz and xyW)

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks Ken:
 Thats exactly what I'm currently doing!!! I have
XYWIN (4.11) in one win95 window and a local
version of the Netscape Browser in another window
and I switch back and forth AFTER SAVING and then
RELOADing. By seeing it in the same place would
be orders of magnitude less effort-consuming, but
it still works. The conversion would be a first
step and would tell if further investment is
merited.
 OH WELL!
BTW, I think we have a mutual friend: Page Basheer
- Say helo to him when you next speak
Dick Giering

"Frank Kenneth B." wrote:
>
> You're right that such an enhancement would probably be relatively easy, but
> I'm not sure what it would accomplish. If we didn't attempt to process any
> of the commands I doubt that the text without any visible tags would mean
> very much.
>
> All of the visible structure of an HTML document, as well as any hyperlinks,
> graphics, etc., is determined by the tags. If we suppress the tags and
> don't process them (and don't of course have any of our commands in the
> file) I suspect the file would be a mess to look at. Just switch back and
> forth between a reasonably complex HTML file in one window, and a copy of
> that same file in another window where you have done a search and replace to
> remove all the tags, and see what it looks like.
>
> What do others think?
>
> K.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Giering [mailto:dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 1:23 PM
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: XyWrites 4 and 5 (was: RE: Dataviz and xyW)
>
> Ref to Ken Frank's answer on this subject:
>
> Hi Ken:
>  Thanks for your comments ... this is not to
> start or continue a "great debate", BUT I believe
> a single enhancement - which I can't see as being
> so technologically difficult - would be an
> additional display mode ONLY. The mode would be
> the same as Draft mode, but with ALL angle
> bracketed commands (including the end command)
> buried within a square similar to the XYWrite
> commands being embedded in a triangle.
>  If, as I assume, this is a relatively simple
> (cost and technological) enhancement), it should
> GO A LONG WAY to answering the question of whether
> there is a market out there and, if there is,
> justify investment OR NOT. Without some action
> such as this everything we say on our end and you
> say on your end is equally supposition.
>  No need to decipher links, bolds, underlines,
> tables, lists, et al. These could come later
> AFTER the investment is or is not justified.
> Thanks for letting me spout off!
> Dick Giering
>
> "Frank Kenneth B." wrote:
> >
> > I don't want to start up a whole debate, but it's worth making the
> following > points:
> >
> > 1. Making XyWrite into a HTML editor is anything but a minor enhancement.
> > "strip" ...