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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:16:30 -0500
From: Albert Henderson <NobleStation@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject: Re: Cost per title... (Dan Lester)

on Sun, 12 Nov 2000 Dan Lester <dan@riverofdata.com> wrote
[snip]

>>> ----
>>> HTML output also garbles and loses lines.
>>> ----
>>>
>>> Nonsense.  HTML doesn't garble or lose anything.  A bad connection, a
>>> sickly or overloaded computer, a funky browser, or other things can do
>>> that. Of course those things can also mess up any other computer
>>> protocols that are used.
>
>>>>         You can blame the electric company, but I have seen
>>>>         it too often running on UPSed equipment to believe
>>>>         that it isn't a "quality" consideration.
>
>Well, when you provide proof that "HTML loses things" in situations
>where other methods of encoding data don't, I'll eat one of my hats.
>Remember, HTML is nothing but plain ASCII text, just like this message
>and the one to which it is responding.  In HTML the ">" just has a
>different meaning.

        Get out the mustard. I am mailing some HTML pages that I
        printed the other day only to find the top line missing
        several times. I'm so glad I hadn't taken out the trash.

Best wishes,

Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
<70244.1532@compuserve.com>