Re: HTML-Info design

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:22 -0500
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>   > > 2. It will be able to represent many things that Info can't.
> 
>   > No disagreement here.  The question that bothers me if it can support
>   > the important features we have now in our Info reader.
> 
> Yes it can.  We just have to design ways to represent, in HTML, the
> necessary data for these features to operate on.  Then implement the
> features (perhaps in HTML for use in IceCat, perhaps in other ways
> too).

I'd need to see some initial design for that, in order to agree.

I'm not an expert, but AFAIK HTML is not an extensible format, there's
no place there to represent entities that are not already defined by
whatever organizations that codify HTML.