opening a text document to show a .txt file through a browser link

[Nico Schuyt]

Sam Hughes wrote:
> Making Web sites is _not_ programming.  Programming happens when you
> give a list of instructions that are to be executed.  Making web
> sites involves using markup to describe text and images.  Web sites
> do not give browsers instructions, they give browsers information.  A
> <p> tag doesn't say "Render this like a paragraph and add the default
> margin between it and other paragraphs," it says "This here is a
> paragraph."

Disagree with that. A HTML page is a set of command lines. When sent to the
interpreter, the browser, the result is shown on the screen.