On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 01:44:19 +0100, Chris Salter wrote:
>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'!
>:-)
You are, of course, absolutely correct, but I was trying to simplify
matters because KT might come back and ask: what is markup language?
;-) :-)
Hence I thought describing HTML as an 'interface' (what one sees on a
web page) would convey what I really wanted to describe as 'display'.
Ahmad, also an interface that gets fuzzy at times ;-)
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