Re: In defense of HTML

[Kai Wetzel <k.wetzel@welfen-netz.com>]

Kevin Forge wrote:
[...]
> "It's a dirty job ... but somebody's gota do it."
> 
> Yes converting man pages to HTML is a pain but it has to be done
> if Linux is gona take over. 

Ideally, all docs should be available in an application of
SGML which maintains content-oriented information.  But just
HTML would already be an improvement.

> BTW : Netscape is far too large for a help browser.  However a
> minimal HTML browser should be enough since man pages are essentially
> plain text to begin with.  The difficult part is converting the MAN
> document format to html and making all the links work.

I love this layout:
http://www.digiweb.net.ma/support/help/man/ezmlm/
:O)

kai