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Actually, the original web browser, WorldWideWeb (circa 92) could display postscript files. As browsers were created for other operating systems, support for al
by indymike 6y ago
Actually, the original web browser, WorldWideWeb (circa 92) could display postscript files. As browsers were created for other operating systems, support for all the media that a NeXT could display was lost... NeXT's GUI was unique in that it was built on Display PostScript...
- goto11 6y agoThis also tells us that Tim Berners-Lee was familiar with postscript and its power, but still decided to base the hypertext on a SGML-derived declarative document format without embedded rendering instructions. TBL knew what he was doing.