From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:08:16 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <002401c48c48$872d8da0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <4111491A.4090601@runestig.com> <4111D8D4.1040506@runestig.com> <1091693906.8538.201741376@webmail.messagingengine.com> <001d01c47afa$c1f5f170$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <003e01c48946$a8ebfad0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <011201c48a06$469eb6e0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <016f01c48a10$f6081090$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <001801c48a37$995d27f0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c48a5a$Blat.v2.2.2$412bdd60@zahav.net.il> <412DFF1B.9010603@ig.com.br> <16686.4094.173795.914606@tron.eng.it> <004001c48b8d$f622ec70$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <412E20A5.3050407@ig.com.br> <000d01c48b9c$763a5570$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <007801c48bba$80b4d890$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> < NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093619655 18981 80.91.224.253 (27 Aug 2004 15:14:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:14:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 17:13:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0iQL-0005fN-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:13:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0iV1-00078k-9A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:18:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0iUu-00078L-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:18:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0iUs-00077J-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:18:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0iUs-00076z-SZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.116] (helo=av1-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C0iQ8-00050r-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:13:41 -0400 Original-Received: by av1-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id D4A8F37E8F; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:13:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.182]) by av1-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C311637E63; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:13:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t3o58p55.telia.com [195.252.56.55]) by smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 9425E37E47; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:13:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Benjamin Riefenstahl" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26571 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26571 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Riefenstahl" > Most OSs have no idea what HTML is. The user installs a browser of > his choice (or other tools) and that handles the HTML. Sorry if this > sounds pedantic, but my point is "a browser of his choice", which > implies that in general there is no fixed stable interface to an HTML > processing facility. > > On Windows you always have Internet Explorer, but a) it's printing > output may not be acceptable and b) it is constantly changing with > feature updates as well as security patches. Surprise again. Do you mean that Mac and Linux (to leave out more technical alternatives) do not have something like Windows Explorer where you can double-click (or something similar) on a HTML file to open it? Or is not this feature integrated and available to other programs through some kind of API? - Lennart