Subj : HTMLTERM
To   : KK4QBN
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Jul 19 2017 09:41 am

  Re: HTMLTERM
  By: KK4QBN to Nightfox on Wed Jul 19 2017 11:22 am

 KK> yea.. 2007 was the last time they were fooled with... I guess this was
 KK> before html became more "interactive" beats me.. I thought it would have
 KK> been cool.. 

 KK> maybe it was'nt even what I though it was going to be, but it appears to
 KK> be a dupilicate of the generic synchronet system that outputs html
 KK> formatted text instead of regular text. the html.bin detects whether they
 KK> have the HTML terminal, if does it sends to html_shell.js if not it sends
 KK> them to default.js. 

There's a lot of ways HTML can format text - I think much more so than text
client can render..  A text client for BBSing (from what I've seen) typically
doesn't do things like italics, underline, fonts and font sizes, frames, etc.. 
There's a lot of HTML formatting that would just have to be ignored to display
it in a BBS text client.  Text colors specified in HTML and CSS could probably
be used to some extent, and breaking up paragraphs (with the HTML <P> tag),
etc., but I think it would be fairly limited.

Nightfox

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