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

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

>   Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:18:10 +1000
>  From: "jwalsh(a)bigpond.net.au" <jwalsh(a)bigpond.net.au>
>  To: ReactOS General List <ros-general(a)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).