Re: Revision information for HTML documents
Ian S. Graham (igraham@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca)
Thu, 21 Dec 95 16:12:25 EST
>
> Ian S. Graham writes:
> ] I like this example also, but -- having initiated this whole INS/DEL=20
> ] discussion, would like to point out that computer code is not the=20
> ] only place this INS/DEL is relevant -- in fact,
> ] code is probably the least important, in the long run. My particular
> ] interest was for legal or other text documents, where the reader needs=20
> ] to see the insertions and deletions marked appropriately (struck out,=20
> ] highlighted, etc) so I *need* information about the differences present=
> =20
> ] in some way in the document itself. I also want these differences=20
>
> the document, in this case, is the RCS file (,v), and that contains
> all the information you want, probably lots more, but that's mostly good.
>
Yes, this is all true, but does this scale to japanese text, unicode
character sets, multilingual environments, etc. This is what I mean
by long term, and I don't think RCS is necessarily or easiliy extensible
for these environments.
I still think the RCS idea is good -- I'm simply not convinced that
it is the best long-term solution for a fully internationalized web.
Ian
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