opening a text document to show a .txt file through a browser link

[Mike Meyer]

"Nico Schuyt" <nschuyt at hotmail.com> writes:
> Sam Hughes wrote:
> > Making Web sites is _not_ programming.  Programming happens when you
> > give a list of instructions that are to be executed.  Making web
> > sites involves using markup to describe text and images.  Web sites
> > do not give browsers instructions, they give browsers information.  A
> > <p> tag doesn't say "Render this like a paragraph and add the default
> > margin between it and other paragraphs," it says "This here is a
> > paragraph."
> Disagree with that. A HTML page is a set of command lines. When sent to the
> interpreter, the browser, the result is shown on the screen.

Not in the browser I wrote, they weren't. They were sent to the voice
synthesizer to be played back over the computers speakers.

If HTML is programming, then a secretary composing a document in a
word processor with a "save as HTML" option is programming.  I don't
buy that for a minute.

        <mike
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