Re: TAG case; XHTML; Flame Wars.

>Seems like the Web is about more than just browsers, though...it's about 
>the
>interconnection of humanity using every possible device and medium.  In 
>that
>case, it's possible the code may have to support more than just
>browsers...??

I don't agree entirely. My view: The Internet (and not the Web) is about the 
interconnection of humanity using every possible device and medium. (nice 
definition, by the way)

The WWW is just a section of the Internet specialized in web sites which are 
written in HTML and viewed with browsers.

But I admit that the distinction is beginning to blur. Are WAP-sites part of 
the WWW or not?
They require special devices (though Opera 4 is rumoured to support WML) and 
a special language: WML, which is related to HTML but certainly not the 
same.
On the other hand, the WAP protocol only takes care of the connection 
between a mobile phone and the nearest WAP-server which translates the 
WAP-request to a normal HTTP-request.

So new devices will give birth to new languages, unless they want to plug 
into the existing WWW right now. In that case they have to support good old 
HTML.

ppk
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