Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2
by rauhl on Sunday October 27, 2019 @05:09PM
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> On the other hand, the restriction that scientific publications must be renderable onto reconstituted dead trees makes it that authors often spend multiple “pages” explaining what a single interactive chart would explain far better.
On the gripping hand, in a century those reconstituted dead trees will still be legible by anyone who can lay hands on them; the likelihood that an interactive presentation from 2019 will be legible to anyone other than a computer archæologist in 2119 is effectively nil.
Heck, there’s a decent chance that it won’t work in a year or two!
On the gripping hand, in a century those reconstituted dead trees will still be legible by anyone who can lay hands on them; the likelihood that an interactive presentation from 2019 will be legible to anyone other than a computer archæologist in 2119 is effectively nil.
Heck, there’s a decent chance that it won’t work in a year or two!