XPost: comp.emulators.cbm, comp.sys.cbm   
   From: nospam.rickbalkins@nospam.wavestarinteractive.com   
      
   "Stealth"  wrote in message   
   news:dhe5g5$5cr$1@ss405.t-com.hr...   
   > Thus spoke larry@portcommodore.com:   
   >> Only thought on that is that you should pretest the wiki for alternate   
   >> ouput as vanilla text/HTML - for character terminal based access;   
   >> wouldn't want the 8-bit on-line friends not able to access it.  Many   
   >> use CSS layouts or tables.   
   >   
   > As far as I know, standard Wikipedia has a "printable version" option.   
   > Given a bit of PHP knowledge it could be programmed to allow for one   
   > version of the pages (with all the bells and whistles) for PCs and   
   > another (simpler, with PETSCII encoding) for 8-bit viewers. I don't   
   > really know how well ASCII/UTF/ISO-to-PETSCII conversion works with   
   > 8-bit browsers, but if it's possible then it's just a matter of using   
   > one layout for 8-bit machines and another for newer ones.   
      
      
   Sounds good. A little bit of intellegent formatting - you can set it up for   
   graphical bells & whistles and an ASCII text version and a PETSCII version   
   (pre-converted over and carefully adjusted and worked over to proper   
   Commodore format without loosing context.   
      
   Let's not forget the CML format as an option. (Commodore Markup Language)   
      
   PHP should be able to be pre-processed and leave just the CML. Just like you   
   can have mixed PHP and HTML in a .php as well as scripts. As all non-PHP   
   syntax would be left upto the client-side to handle just like javascript. So   
   CML should be able to be embedded in a PHP file. All we need is a good CML   
   browser on a Commodore and possibly a plugin for a web-browser to support   
   CML. (Commodore Markup Language).   
      
   NOTE: Don't confuse it with another language/script that goes by the letters   
   CML that is also somewhat common on web-browsers. This would be an   
   interesting concept so lets just have some thoughts on it.   
      
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