Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 02:23:49 -0800
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-Id: <9312031023.AA06039@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)
Subject: Re: Minor clarification on url: prefix
In-Reply-To: <199312022208.AA05987@oit.gatech.edu>
<9312021233.AA16136@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Michael Mealling writes:
> Simon E Spero said this:
> > Against:
> > Without some means of determining where the url ends, the URL: prefix
> > loses badly.
>
> For:
> That's what <> are for. You end up with <URL:something> where "<" and ">"
> delimit the thing in text and "URL:" tells you want that thing inside
> those angle brackets is. It doesn't loose. You just need to use it
> in the context of an additional wrapper.
Ain't we given up on angle brackets as delimiters yet? Or is we still
determined to make sure that using URLs in SGML contexts is going to
be as confusing as possible?
Marc