Re: Improving the Web.

2025-07-25 Thread Greg
On 2025-07-24, Dan Ritter wrote: > > PostScript and its encapsulated, reduced and compressed > successor, PDF, define rendering without being at all concerned > about semantics. When you have rendering without semantics, you > cannot do anything guaranteed useful with it except to render it > to a

Re: Improving the Web.

2025-07-25 Thread peter
Joe & all, From: Joe Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:49:24 +0100 > The idiots already do whatever they want to do with JavaScript, AJAX > etc. Yes and in many or most contexts the practices are unnecessary. Where security is a concern, execution of code from a remote server on a client syst

Re (2): Improving the Web.

2025-07-24 Thread peter
From: Dan Ritter Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:17:43 -0400 > HTML (badly, improperly) defines semantics. ... You know more about formal languages than I do. > Trying to replicate paper documents anywhere except in the > narrow scope of trying to produce a paper docunent is a bad > move. Ac

Re: Improving the Web.

2025-07-24 Thread Joe
On 24 Jul 2025 07:46:29 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > David & all, > > Ref. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/01/msg00110.html > > From: David Wright > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:26:54 -0600 > > "Debian helps fix the Web." Not a headline I expect ever to see, > > ... > > Too

Re: Improving the Web.

2025-07-24 Thread Dan Ritter
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Ref. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/01/msg00110.html > > From: David Wright > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:26:54 -0600 > > "Debian helps fix the Web." Not a headline I expect ever to see, ... > > Too simplisitic and a Web topic rather than Debian topic.

Improving the Web.

2025-07-24 Thread peter
David & all, Ref. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/01/msg00110.html From: David Wright Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:26:54 -0600 > "Debian helps fix the Web." Not a headline I expect ever to see, ... Too simplisitic and a Web topic rather than Debian topic. But Debian attracts som