Correction Re: Issue 1. [Re: [ros-general] ROS-User-Issues]

[jwalsh at bigpond.net.au]

Sorry again Richard.
I forgot to attach my references.
Please see below.

> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:18:10 +1000
> From: "jwalsh at bigpond.net.au" <jwalsh at bigpond.net.au>
> To: ReactOS General List <ros-general at reactos.org>
> Subject: Re: Issue 1. [Re: [ros-general] ROS-User-Issues]
> Cc: 
> 
> Strictly speaking you are correct Richard.
> To be more precise http and html are merely a legacy of  hypercard/hypertalk.
> I beg your pardon I will try to be more precise.
> Wikipedia too is not written by experts, so you can alter their facts if you fell they are wrong.
> We are all to a certain extent captives of legacy.
> I am on many lists and find that I sometime grab a convenient answer without properly checking it validity.
> 
> Cheers and rosuccess
> Justin
>
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the primary method used to convey information on the World Wide Web. The original purpose was to provide a way to publish and receive HTML pages.


In August 1987, Apple Computer revealed its HyperCard application for its Macintosh line of computers at the MacWorld convention in Boston. HyperCard was an immediate hit and helped to popularize the concept of hypertext with the general public (although as Jakob Nielsen later pointed out, it was technically a hypermedia system because its hyperlinks originated only from regions on the screen). The first hypertext-specific academic conference also took place that year.

Legacy

HyperCard is one of the first products that made use of and popularized the hypertext concept to a large popular base of users.

Jakob Nielsen has pointed out that HyperCard was really only a hypermedia program since its links started from regions on a card, not text objects; actual HTML-style text hyperlinks were possible in later versions, but were awkward to implement and seldom used.

HyperCard saw a loss in popularity with the growth of the World Wide Web, since the Web could handle and deliver data in much the same way as HyperCard without being limited to files on your hard disk. Interestingly, HyperCard had a significant impact on the web as it inspired the creation of both HTTP itself and JavaScript (through its influence on Tim Berners-Lee's colleague Robert Cailliau).