Today, Benjamin Scott gleaned this insight:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
> > - I want the FSCK'ing buttons to be all the same length :)
>
> HTML is not a display-specification language, it is a data-markup language.
Well, that's a nice thought, but the reality is that's how it's used
nowadays. I wish it weren't, so I could actually READ what's on some
people's web pages... When I say "Use my font selections," I mean it
dammit!
> The world should stop trying to make web pages look the same
> everywhere they display. HTML is designed to allow the *user* to
> control the presentation of hypertext marked up by the author. Web
> pages are *supposed* to look different depending on how they are
> viewed!
I agree completely, but on the other hand, how will all the marketing
weenies present you with all that flashy, gimicky content that you don't
care one iota about?
> of how they use it! Beautiful! But Netscape -- and now Microsoft -- have
> perverted it into a glorified read-only word-processor file-format. Argh!)
Aw... come on Ben! We've got Netscape Composer from Netscape, and
Microsoft Word from MS which prove their not read-only! You can edit your
pages to your heart's content with those tools. And sifting through all
the garbage they insert into your documents when trying to hand tweak a
few small tidbits of your HTML is a small price to pay for the ability to
quickly and easily generate flashy, exciting documents that no one wants
to look at.
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