From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: HTML-Info design Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:00:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87vbl2bblc.fsf@fencepost.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419350458 31786 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2014 16:00:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , stephen@xemacs.org, nferrier@ferrier.me.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 23 17:00:51 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 1Y3RtA-0001zl-T3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:00:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45257 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3RtA-0005VU-7B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:00:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33499) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3Rsn-0005VM-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:00:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3Rsl-0005bb-U1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:00:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3Rsl-0005bW-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:00:23 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58753 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3Rse-0004Dz-B6; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:00:16 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C87D2E0473; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:00:15 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:32:56 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:180573 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > How can we know that without even trying to implement a substantial > > subset of what Info does? Your current implementation is 300-line > > long; if the addition of at least the basic Info features will take it > > to 3000, then what did we gain? > > The reasons I am interested in HTML-Info are > > 1. It will be readable (though without full Info functionality) > in ordinary browsers. > > 2. It will be able to represent many things that Info can't. Is there a reason we cannot extend the Info format? It has been extended for images already. The basic difference I see is that Info is preformatted and has documents organized in multi-file parts (including an index) that the Info reader is well-informed about. -- David Kastrup