On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Jack Gilding wrote:
> Tony and meta2ers
>
> I hope this message is slightly tongue in cheek and we are not supporting
> technology change via press release, rather than some understanding of
> where the user base is at software wise. But seriously, I will not be
> recommending to EdNA users that they use the HTML 4.0 Syntax until there is
> some evidence that the majority of tools support this. In the meantime I
> still favour the inelegant bracket notation for scheme and language because
> I am reasonably confident that people's metadata will not get 'lost' when
> they edit their pages with any HTML tool.
>
I think it would be useful to have a list of editors which can corrupt
embedded metadata in HTML pages. I know that Microsoft's Internet
Assistant for Word can do this. Are you saying you are aware of other
tools which do this?
Thanks
Brian Kelly
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