What's in a .htmld or .htmd?

Dan Grillo (Dan_Grillo@NeXT.COM)
Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:09:16 -0800

> This one is a raging open question, but probably the easiest settled
> Generally, we want such a format to be self-contained, so the intention is that
> the wrapper can include other files, directories, symlinks; and that such
> structure should be preserved by cooperating applications (eText, for example,
> garbage collects). Here are a few of the design choices:
>
> .htmd (HyperText Markup Document) vs .htmld
> index.html vs. _____ (TXT.rtf, multiple topics, a la sanguish)
> multi-format representations (index-ascii, index-mono, index-color)

I'll continue with this one.

First, .htmld is already registered with NeXT's type registry;
I did it a long time ago.

I don't think .htmd is.

What should be in a .htm[l]d? Right know I know of 3 forms.

1. foo.htmld/index.html
2. foo.htmld/TXT.html
3. foo.htmld/foo.html

I think forms 1 & 3 are useful.

Pages, StepWise, and NeXTanswers all currently serve files saved as .htmld

Right now NeXTanswers uses form #3, so the internal .html can be FTP'ed
or saved from a web browser and used on it's own. This is hard to
do if they all are index.html.

--Dan

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