Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Stewart Gordon]

On 11/03/2012 19:44, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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> I wouldn't make it an online editor.  Just let a normal editor
> access remote files.  Done.  As for specifically html documents on
> the web, doesn't http already have provisions for updating anyway?

HTTP has a PUT method, but I'm not sure it's widely supported.  Nowadays, practically 
everyone uses FTP to upload web pages.  Either that or a web-based file manager such as 
free hosts tend to provide instead of FTP access.

> Hell, the *original* web browser was *both* an editor and a viewer.

What kind of editor - raw HTML, WYSIWYM, WYSINWYG or something else entirely?

> But then Mosaic came along, scrapped the editor part, and
> everything since has followed suit.

I guess the authors of Mosaic were bothered about enabling people to browse the web, 
rather than to create web pages.

But there were a few other combined browsers and editors to come, like Netscape Navigator 
Gold (the editor part of which later broke away into Netscape Composer, or so I was told)....

Stewart.