In article <[log in to unmask]>, dated Thu, 16 Jul
1998 at 23:25:11, Ahmad Risk <[log in to unmask]> writes
>HTML is, of course, an interface, unlike HTTP which is a protocol.
Your terminology is a little less precise than usual in this particular
instance, Ahmad. HTML is a Markup Language and if you choose to describe
it as an 'interface' then you can also describe Hypertext Transfer
Protocol in similar terms. Both are sets of rules that allow one process
to interface with another. Perhaps you were thinking of the
human/information interface in which case generic hypertext might fit
into that catagory although even that may be subject to 'hums and ha's'!
:-)
Chris (also an 'interface')
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