Garrett A. Wollman

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• January 26, 1998: Old LCS network map
• September 17, 1998: INQUIR, fun fun

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• April 6, 1998, on Learn to Program HTML in 21 Minutes :

  To expand a little bit on the

  discussion: HTML is an application of SGML. SGML is good. Part of the definition of HTML (in SGML) specifies: MINIMIZE OMITTAG YES SHORTTAG YES In SGML-speak, this specifies two useful features. First, any tag which could be deduced from the structure of the document may be omitted. This includes not only

  , but also ,

, , and many others. The second feature, SHORTTAG, allows markup to be expressed more concisely, e.g., Shortened End Tags for Fun and Profit. Unfortunately, since very few Web browsers actually implement HTML as is it formally defined, these features cannot be relied upon. However, it is a Simple Matter of Programming to combine existing SGML tools with `make' and a copy of the HTML DTD to automatically process Web documents through an SGML normalizer which transforms HTML into a common subset understood by all browsers. At the same time, other advanced SGML feat...
• April 14, 1998, on Communications:

  You describe MPEG-2 as ``better than a VCR but not HDTV''. Sorry to disappoint, but HDTV (more correctly called DTV or ATV) *is* MPEG-2. The TV broadcasters are finally figuring out that there's a lot more money to be made in delivering five streams of slightly-better-than-NTSC than there is in delivering one stream of quite-a-lot-better-than-NTSC.