Re: hmmm... servers producing per-browser customised output.

Jeff Smith (sumisu@mingus.slab.ntt.jp)
Wed, 2 Nov 1994 21:03:59 +0100

|>anthony baxter wrote:
|>>[...]
|>> I'm dreading the day where pages are just one large imagemap gif of the
|>> page, exactly as the provider wants it to look.
|>>
|> I have been involved with a group who were contemplating setting
|> up a WWW-based newspaper. One of their major concerns was how to
|> get a satisfactory layout. In particular, many of the members
|> wanted to be able to preserve the columnar style of classical
|> newspapers. I'd expect the <Table> tag to be good for this, but
|> till that's widely supported, one approach that I demonstrated
|> to the group was exactly that: pages done as gifs! And they liked
|> it..
|> _______________________Alan_Richmond__________________________
|> CyberWeb http://www.charm.net/~web/CWSW.html World
|> SoftWare http://www.charm.net/~web/Vlib.html Wide
|> WWW Systems Engineering web@sowebo.charm.net Web

Yes, but you can't do searches on the text and can't view them on
non-graphic terminals.

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