Re: Be afraid of XML

From: Russell Wallace (wallacethinmintr_at_eircom.net)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:45:41 GMT

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:48:55 -0800, RobertMaas@YahooGroups.Com wrote:

>By the way, whatever happened to true HyperText (Xanadu), where not
>just GIFs and other images, but any segments of text also, can be
>inlined from some other URL, with the browser presenting the illusion
>that all the stuff on-screen came from a single document?

Maybe someone realized that when a user saves a document, he wants to
come back and find the same document, not a version with half the text
replaced with "This page has moved" etc? Strange people, users :) 

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