Quoth Paul Makepeace on Wed, Oct 06, 1999:
> My original comment was "could see *no* use for HTML or non-ASCII at all"
> (emphasis added). If you wanted some feedback on your color scheme for a
> client, how would you do that with ASCII?
Please see the following URL:
http://....
> If you wanted to demonstrate your
> typography design portfolio over email, how would you do that with ASCII?
Not ASCII, but not HTML either. Troff, TeX, PostScript,
whatever. HTML is not for typesetting.
> If
> you wanted to mix fixed and proportionally spaced text (e.g. annotated
> code listing), how would you do that with ASCII?
As above. PostScript or something.
> The point is that there are some not just valid but otherwise impossible uses
> for HTML in email.
Yes, a few. But not as much as it's used.
Vadik.
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