Subject: Re: [TS] Fidelity of Palm conversion
From: Ben Darnell (bgdarnel@unity.ncsu.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 09:51:24 EDT
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 03:27:28PM +0200, Jack Nutting wrote:
> > > Question: Why not let the Palm version "do HTML"? I don't mean full
> > > HTML, but some reasonable (and easily parsable) subset. Use the same
> > > subset in the desktop markup so there will be no confusion. An
> > > initial implementation (for simplicity's sake) could even have the
> > > Palm version ignoring all tags, but leaving them intact.
> >
> > That would be great, but very difficult to do. The most likely way for
> > this to happen is with a plugin which processes the data and passes it off
> > to Plucker or a similar program.
>
> (CAVEAT: I have never looked at the TS desktop software, so I have no idea
> what kind of HTML markup it supports. this ignorance probably influences
> what I'm saying to a large degree)
Well, none at the moment. All this discussion of HTML is hypothetical.
It just came up because Lucid, which does support HTML (which the user
enters by hand and so could contain any tags), can now export to a
format TS can read.
> Now that I think about it, this leads us back into another XML discussion:
> Why not just use XML for the markup, and forget about HTML markup on the
> desktop?
Because HTML markup is already ubiquitous. We'll probably have to deal
with it coming in from other sources anyway, even if TS prefers some
other type of markup. The wxHTML widget can be used to get easy HTML
display (still no WYSIWYG editing; you'll have to go to the source for
that). Personally, I would probably use StructuredText instead of HTML,
since that still looks reasonable whether the app has special support
for it or not. But, as you said, the entry path to the program should
be as wide as possible.
-Ben
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