From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: HTML-Info design Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:22 -0500 Message-ID: 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: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419415008 23006 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2014 09:56:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 09:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, nferrier@ferrier.me.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 24 10:56:43 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 1Y3igM-00085u-2Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:56:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47594 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3igL-0001I5-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3ig4-0000s0-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3ig3-0006Bf-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38060) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3ig3-0006Bb-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3ig2-0004bq-FD; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:22 -0500 In-reply-to: <83vbl2nqxl.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:48:06 +0200) 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:180628 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > > 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). -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.