Why slides? I can think of a few good reasons:
1. Style sheets become immaterial. You have a guarantee that if anyone views the page, they will view it *precisely* as you designed it -- as long as they have the graphics capability to do so. 2. Security from spiders ... If the page content were text, and included any e-dresses or other such data, a nasty spider could collect it; spiders don't read what's embedded in images. 3. The individual is using a generator I've never heard of before. If it produced complex HTML is there any chance my system could read it? Dunno ... but since all that's necessary is to provide links, and the content is kept to the "slide" it really doesn't matter. ==== On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 15:42:10 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > Hi All; > I came across this on another list: > http://www.unix-systems.org/slides/status-jul2001/ > This takes you to a strange and interesting example of how to do > something while at the same time showing you how NOT to do it !! > Here we get a slideshow. Here we see how a sensible designer can > make the slideshow control panel without javascript. It works well. > Here we get slides. A good example of how to blow 200 bytes of text > up into a 50k image. Why slides ? > - Clarence Verge. > -- Using Arachne 1.66 on DSL. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
