Posted by Ed Mullen on 12/23/06 00:31

dorayme wrote:
> In article <utednYz6CNj78xHYnZ2dnUVZ_o3inZ2d@comcast.com>,
> Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
>
>> dorayme wrote:
>>> In article <2lsmo2h2juj4b8n1u83md3n2vmkil3pfsf@4ax.com>,
>>> Ed Seedhouse <eseedhouse@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:12:44 +1100, dorayme
>>>> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Considering that you must send the actual html source for the page to be
>>>>>> displayed at all, and that the display device is normally a fairly high
>>>>>> powered computer, the idea strikes me as both futile and silly.
>>>>> It would be like company secrets and would doubtless benefit some
>>>>> of those who did it. Not sure the description of silly or futile
>>>>> is apt.
>>>> It is clearly futile since you can't send someone unencrypted plain text
>>>> and expect that they won't be able to look at it. And you must
>>>> necessarily do so if you want someone to look at your web page. Silly is
>>>> a value judgement I admit, but I stand by it. I think it's silly to
>>>> want something that is self contradictory.
>>> This just looks plain like missing the point. No sane person is
>>> going to try to publish a web page while trying to hide it too.
>>> But someone might want to hide the markup, the tags, the css
>>> sheet etc.
>> This pre-supposes that Web pages are only published by sane persons. I
>> find that to be a wholey falacious presumption. Hey, there are an awful
>> lotta nuts out there! And they are publishing pages at an alarming rate!!!
>
> Ed, I don't presuppose that.
>

Excellent! Then (I think) we both are pre-supposing that insanity is
either the norm, or it is largely prevalent, when it comes to the design
of Web pages. Goodie! I really like it when we extraterrestrials can
agree! The world needs more of such inter-racial-inter-celestial
communication. And, frankly, at least based on your missives, Mars
seems to me to be much more advanced in understanding inter-species
relationships and communications. Although, you do have that whole
"water-centric" thing. Geez. Whuzzup wid dat? I mean, don't you have,
like, canals, and all?

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