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Re: H.T.M.L. (RE: Getting home directory in Windows 2000 environment)


news at garydjones dot mailshell dot com wrote:
Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at salira dot com> wrote:
news at garydjones dot mailshell dot com wrote:
Does that mean that we should all post in jpegs since we could then achieve exactly the same thing?
That's an unreasonable stretch from html -> jpeg.
Not at all. The presentation of binary images is "widely supported by GUI
mail and news clients". You might have noted that this is a stupid
argument.
But, it is unreasonably complex to search jpegs for textual content. Searching HTML is not much harder than plain text.



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