NYCPHP Meetup

[Jeff Knight]

Actually, NYPHP has a standard document format: XHTML. You can have
your plain text, images, and metadata in an open, distributable
unbloated format. The format has many open and closed source browsers
and editors, easily available to anybody.


On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:58:37 -0400, Joseph Crawford <codebowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> sure but i had screenshots included in the word doc that you cannot
> have in text files.
> 
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:52:20 -0400, Daniel Convissor
> 
> 
> <danielc at analysisandsolutions.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 05:24:14PM -0400, Joseph Crawford wrote:
> > > here is a word doc
> >
> > Word docs have two major problems.  Massive bloat and being a
> > proprietary format.  Plain old ASCII text is the best way to send
> > stuff, particularly on a mailing list like this.   The same
> > information can be transmitted in a small fraction of the space and be
> > read by anyone.
> >
> > --Dan
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