Introduction
The reasons of writing HTDS was first to replace the existing text.datatype. The
include file of the text.datatype inspired me to write a datatype, which is able to
embed any other datatype object. After some experiments with the existing
text.datatype I decided to write a replacement. During the development of this
replacement datatype, I decided to drop the compatibility for the text.datatype and
write a complete new base datatype for hypertext formats.
Now the HyperText-DataType-System provides features, which currently only available
Web-Browsers offers the Amiga user. But as all Web-Browsers they are normal
applications, which have at least a ARexx port to control the behaviour of the
application. Now with the HTDS it's possible to intergrate for example a
Web-Browser in your own application or `Webbing' around with MultiView.
Because the HTDS based on the Datatypes/BOOPSI concept of the AmigaOS 3.0 or newer,
it's possible to derive new Datatypes from the base Datatype. So the wide range of
different text and hypertext formats are easy to implement. And hopefully in future
the Amiga supports text/hypertext formats as much as current picture formats. This
would make the Amiga a little bit more unique and uptodate.
Requirements
You need at least :