Run a web site on your Personal Computer

[Chris Morris]

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A website without *any* HTML? Impressive; that's something I would like to
see!

http://www.example.net/sites/index.txt

(or more likely)

http://www.example.com/sites/index.swf

 

[Dylan Parry]

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http://www.example.net/sites/index.txt

A text file can by definition contain no hyperlinks, and thus does not
constitute a website - it cannot form a web of pages

(or more likely)

http://www.example.com/sites/index.swf

A Flash application is a Flash application, still not a website

 

[Chris Morris]

A text file can by definition contain no hyperlinks, and thus does not
constitute a website - it cannot form a web of pages

A text file can quite easily contain hyperlinks, provided the UA is
set up to parse them.

A Flash application is a Flash application, still not a website

However it can hyperlink to other applications rather than act within
itself. Silly, yes.

Likewise index.pdf (can hyperlink to other PDF files, not that you'd
normally want to)

And obviously index.xml with an appropriate UA.

And some would argue that the quality of code produced by some
people/programs for websites is such that to describe it as HTML would
be stretching the definition of HTML too far.