marbux wrote:
A see the beauty of completely controlling all visual aspects of
a publication but the internet is just not the best medium for that as
long as there are browsers that don't adhere to standards.
I couldn't agree more. Were I emperor of the world, graphical web browsers
would never have been permitted. Putting powerful typographical tools in the
hands of those who had served no apprenticeship in the trade has resulted in
a World Wide Web that is an aesthetic garbage dump. I can't over-emphasize
just how ugly the Web is to those who were trained in the 500-year-old oral
tradition of typography before computer automation came along and eliminated
the trade. The world lost something very precious, in the blink of a decade
or so. I've often fantasized about starting a web site that features other
web sites so ugly that euthanasia is the only rational response. :-) But
it's a lost cause. I see perhaps one or two web sites a year that employ
such basic techniques as establishing a page focal point. Ugly has
triumphed. The war was lost long ago.
Glad to see we're on the same track :-)
Frank
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