Subj : Freebies To : ROY J. TELLASON From : ED VANCE Date : Mon May 16 2005 09:01 pm RJT>RJT>> The whole point of HTML is that the person viewing it should have RJT>RJT>> their browser rendering the page optimally for their situation. RJT>CA>> The original 'point' of HTML was to allow college professors to RJT>CA>> setup spreadsheet type displays with columns of data that had RJT>CA>> headers for each column etc. HTML _became_ a way to layout RJT>CA>> graphics and other things in spite of vigorous protest from RJT>CA>> college types and the W3C. RJT>RJT> I thought that the original point was being able to link documents RJT>RJT> to each other. RJT>CA> Apple 'invented' hypertext links if that's what you are referring RJT>CA> to. RJT>They may claim that, but I think Ted Nelson wrote about it before Apple go RJT>into it, back in 1974 or thereabouts. Roy and Charles, PC Computing Magazine sent me a copy of THE BEST OF DOS HELP v3 a long time ago. The About... file says that around 1985 Jack Crone and Dan Rollins formed a company called Flambeaux Software that created software using Hypertext long before Hypertext became a buzzword. I thought I'd just jump in and keep the thread going. ;-) Thanks. * SLMR 2.1a * Penny for your thoughts? SURE, Do I get change? --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Try Our Web Based QWK: DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140) .