From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 16:47:36 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141205214736.GE7784@thyrsus.com> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <83r3we2jb9.fsf@gnu.org> <20141205175504.GC3120@thyrsus.com> <87y4qlrdaj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417816080 23756 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 21:48:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 21:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 22:47:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx0jC-00043o-7m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:47:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52588 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx0jB-0008EX-SF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:47:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52105) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx0j4-0008EE-ID for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:47:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx0j0-0005wi-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:47:46 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:58743 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx0iv-0005wT-Cz; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:47:37 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C66413836F4; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 16:47:36 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y4qlrdaj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179027 Archived-At: David Kastrup : > HTML is not a suitable source format for documentation but a target > format, That is true; I wasn't trying to suggest otherwise. I was addressing Stefan's point that HTML rendering in eww isn't that good yet. I think the natural consituency for eww and HTML as a browsing format is so large that if we blow down our barriers to entry somebody will show up to polish eww to a nice shine. (In fact, I have a fair guess who that will be.) > and AsciiDoc is an even larger barrier. It's not well-defined > and has no canonical and/or reliable implementation. That is not. It is quite well documented and specified. It has a canonical inplementation (asciidoc) and a slightly extended one (asciidoctor). -- Eric S. Raymond