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Kylotan · 06-21-2008, 03:22 PM

You are confusing HTML and HTTP. Admittedly, you could claim Mike was doing this in his post too, but I think he was more making the point that when HTML became popular, the relative usefulness of protocols that are oriented towards text-only data dropped significantly.

MXP is a poor protocol. The various special cases and hacks make it awkward to implement, and it reinvents several wheels that didn't need to be invented. The low level should have been handled via telnet subnegotiation rather than pushed inline, and most of the presentation tags are more than adequately addressed in XHTML and CSS without needing to duplicate that effort under new names.

06-21-2008, 03:22 PM	#38
Kylotan Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Nottingham, UK Home MUD: Abattoir (Smaug) Home MUD: ex-Jellybean (Smaug) Home MUD: ex-Dark Chambers (Merc) Posts: 174	Re: custom clients. Good or bad? You are confusing HTML and HTTP. Admittedly, you could claim Mike was doing this in his post too, but I think he was more making the point that when HTML became popular, the relative usefulness of protocols that are oriented towards text-only data dropped significantly. MXP is a poor protocol. The various special cases and hacks make it awkward to implement, and it reinvents several wheels that didn't need to be invented. The low level should have been handled via telnet subnegotiation rather than pushed inline, and most of the presentation tags are more than adequately addressed in XHTML and CSS without needing to duplicate that effort under new names.