[PLUG] Any good Linux compatible WYSIWYG HTML editor why separate layout/content

Brent Rieck bsr at spek.org
Mon Apr 7 19:52:34 UTC 2008


Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> Would not text-only compatibility be easily implementable with the CSS
> paradigm we're pushing?  Lynx would simply ignore the styles, and all
> that's left is the content (and [lack of] javascript; here is where
> you would have to spend compatibility efforts).

Mostly, yes, but not entirely; how your content is ordered in the source 
matters to users using browsers like lynx, it doesn't matter to users 
using a regular gui browser.

> An actual place I've used text/plain HTTP responses is in web actions
> that are designed to be called from cron, and their output parsed by
> another program.  I call it poorman's SOA.

That sounds like an API and not a web site.. and a XML or JSON response 
is (usually) just text too, content type headers are set to be pleasant 
and to indicate what the content which follows might be for clients that 
care.

--Brent



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