From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-08-29T13:15:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Dr. Dobb's dumps on RedCloth

Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>>>> As part of their "best Ajax" article:
>>>>
>>>>  http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/192203368?pgno=7
>>>>
>>>>  Welcome to the 1980s. Want to make text bold? You'll
>>>>  have to put the characters * and * around it. For big
>>>>  text, first type in h1. All that's missing is a DOS
>>>>  prompt and a floppy disk. No thanks -- been there,
>>>>  done that.
>>>
>>> The browser address bar is the DOS prompt.  Welcome the the 21st C.
>>> Besides, WYSIWYG is so '90s.
>>>
>>> I much prefer Writely to Writeboard, but this reviewer so misses the
>>> point it's laughable.
>>>
>>> (I think the last good issue of Dr. Dobbs was the 30th anniversary one.)
>>>
>>>
>> Well now ... I agree with Dr. Dobbs in this case. Give me WYSIWYG or
>> give me HTML, but don't make me learn a *third* language to mark up text!
> 
> Didn't you mean to say "don't make me learn a <b>third</b> language to
> mark up text" ?
> 
> :-)
> 
> Sorry... I just couldn't help myself :-)
> 
> 
Uh ... yeah. Dang VT100 muscle memory. :)

Which reminds me ... I need to install a DOS emulator to run some Pascal
code.