Re: Identifying scripts by file extension?

altis@ibeam.jf.intel.com (Kevin Altis)

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At 12:12 PM 2/15/94 +0000, Daniel W. Connolly wrote:
>I'm pretty sure we can become HyTime compliant while were at it. Consider:
>
>in stead of:
>        See <A HREF="foo.html">the foo section</a> for more.
>use:
>        <httploc id="home" host="host.domain" path="/dir1/dir2/file">
>        <relloc id=rel1 locsrc="home" path="foo.html">
>        See <A linkend=rel1>the foo section</a> for more.
>
>in stead of:
>        See <A HREF="ftp://host/dir/file.tex">fred's thesis</a> for more.
>use:
>        <ftploc id=ftp1 host="info.cern.ch" dir="/host/dir" file="file.tex"
>                        content-type="text/x-latex">
>        See <A linkend="http1">fred's thesis</a> for more.

Regarding HyTime compliance: When I don't have to type that junk and when
my HTML(+) editor remembers all the syntaxes for me, then I'm all for
HypTime compliance. Until then, HyTime can stay outside in the vaporware
shed.

ka