Re: A few notes on text

Mitra ([email protected])
Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:55:21 -0700


I'm not suggesting that HTML got everything right, but if I don't like the
way HTML does things then I'll argue it there, rather than trying to rehash
the same arguments here. The transition from 2-space to 3-space should be
as smooth as possible, and it would make like a lot nicer if we could use
the same text representation in both.

Some of our worlds have reasonably complex formatted text which is going to
be tricky to do with the existing Text nodes, if we don't have a full rich
text formatting language then we'll probably see the same thing that
happens on the Web when HTML isn't up to the task, i.e. complex text will
get shipped around as Bitmaps, dramatically increasing download times.

- Mitra

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