RE: what is FLAPON & PROPFIND ?

> From: Mike Batchelor [SMTP:mbatchelor@citysearch.com]
>
> HTTP is becoming the catch-all tunnel for all sorts of unsavory,
> poorly-thought-out applications. It was a mistake to allow for
> extensions
>
        Unfortunately this happens to nearly all protocols, file
        formats and programming languagues; they start off being
        compact, and well targetted, but they all tend to converge
        to the same capability because the market wants what is
        fashionable, and wants a one tool does all approach.

        In the web, Postscript is unfashionable, because it is old,
        even though it would be a better way of getting the explicit
        control of formatting craved by most commercial site designers.
Received on Mon Jun 07 1999 - 05:10:12 MDT