From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: HTML-Info design Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 18:33:07 +0200 Message-ID: <8361d1nh30.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87388bnzha.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87k31mdbhe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx0qiv45.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9wqd3i5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87h9wqimf0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y4q1fekv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fvc858c6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ioh4nf8k.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83y4pzptpx.fsf@gnu.org> <871tnr1gqo.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83bnmvowdb.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbl2nqxl.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419438821 16155 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2014 16:33:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:33:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, nferrier@ferrier.me.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 24 17:33:34 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 1Y3osO-0005G6-UQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 17:33:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48845 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3osO-0005BS-BQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:33:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3osC-0005BA-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:33:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3os8-0007ao-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:33:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:36816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3os8-0007ac-3A; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:33:16 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NH300I00HU7UK00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 18:33:14 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NH300IAHHZEHA60@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 18:33:14 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:180647 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:22 -0500 > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, nferrier@ferrier.me.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > 2. It will be able to represent many things that Info can't. > > > No disagreement here. The question that bothers me if it can support > > the important features we have now in our Info reader. > > Yes it can. We just have to design ways to represent, in HTML, the > necessary data for these features to operate on. Then implement the > features (perhaps in HTML for use in IceCat, perhaps in other ways > too). I'd need to see some initial design for that, in order to agree. I'm not an expert, but AFAIK HTML is not an extensible format, there's no place there to represent entities that are not already defined by whatever organizations that codify HTML.