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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> there is a perfectly fine format for text with hyperlinks and images
> called HTML (I hope that doesn't come as a suprise to anyone) and
> making a viewer in Emacs for texi2html converted manuals similar to
> Info is IMHO a better solution.

Supporting HTML would be _much_ more complex than making simple
extensions to info (note that the w3 html rendering code, which has been
worked on for many years, is still very buggy, and almost unusably slow
on many machines).

-Miles
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