Re: File upload from a Web browser
Joel Crisp (Joel.Crisp@bristol.ac.uk)
Tue, 18 Jul 1995 14:38:25 +0000
Adrian John Howard wrote :
> From adrianh@cogs.susx.ac.uk Tue Jul 18 14:33 BST 1995
> Subject: Re: File upload from a Web browser
> To: Joel.Crisp@bristol.ac.uk (Joel Crisp)
> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 14:38:12 +0100 (BST)
> From: Adrian John Howard <adrianh@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
> Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
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> > From: Joel Crisp <Joel.Crisp@bristol.ac.uk>
> >
> > To my mind, the most significant missing feature in browsers is
> > support for equations. This seems to be a strange feature to omit,
> > as there are so many requirements for it. Several source code
> > implementations for equation renderers exist, so why the delay ?
>
> Well, the Arena browser has supported HTML 3 equations for quite some
> time now, see:
>
> <http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Arena/>
Unfortunatly, Arena is not stable enough to use for teaching purposes,
and we need browsers which will run on basic MS-windows PC's not
just high end ones...( e.g. 3.1 not 95 or NT ).
>
> One would hope that most browser authors have decided not to support it
> coz HTML 3 is still evolving and they want to get it right first
> time.... (watch as Adrian tries to avoid ranting about NCC HTML
> extensions :-)
I think getting something out for discussion is more important in
this particular case. I understand that the equation part of the
HTML draft spec is more stable than some other parts ( e.g. style
sheets etc ), but people seem to be implementing them before equations.
>
> Adrian
>
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Joel
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