Re: Web part of the "FAQ Book" project

Robert F. Heeter (rfheeter@phoenix.Princeton.EDU)
Wed, 11 Oct 1995 19:50:20 -0400

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>Nancy Gough wrote:
>> On Sun, 8 Oct 1995, Al Gilman wrote:
>> > 1) Either stick to HTML 2.0 for the pages in this creation, or
>> > support a down-tech version because the people who will take the
>> > trouble to look up and read FAQs often don't have the latest
>> > spiffiest SportsBrowser.
>
>> I would rather not have more than one version of the FAQ Launchers but
>> I don't think we need to stick to HTML 2. I think that as long as we
>> stick with standard HTML (i.e., 2, 3, and above) and make sure that it
>> looks reasonable in the main browsers - Lynx, NCSA Mosaic, Netscape
>> Navigator, etc. - we will be providing a really useful tool to the
>> vast majority of the Net.
>
>Putting in HTML 3.0 keywords can really make things unplesant for
>other browsers, though. Have you tried to read a table with a browser
>which does not support them? Ugh. And it's not just ugly, either.
>The information presented by the form of the data is lost.

I don't profess to be a net expert, but it seems to me that you
want to compare the timeframe over which you're going to be
developing and implementing the FAQ Launchers with the timeframe
over which HTML 3.0 is going to become the de facto standard.

While it doesn't really make sense to go beyond HTML 2.0 for pages
which you want to be widely used tomorrow, I suspect it will take a
while for the FAQ Launchers to become widely known. By the time the
new system gets up and running, HTML 3.0 is likely to be in widespread
use. If the material you want to present is more naturally laid out
with tables, then use them. Everyone else will catch up eventually.
It doesn't make sense to plan for the present when the future is where
all the *use* of the FAQ launchers will be.

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