Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Jason Kraus wrote: >> So why is xhtml a bad thing for open office to use? > > Because the problem which xhtml services is different, and only very > tangentially related, to word processing. > > XHTML is about content and only slightly about presentation. Word > processing is mostly about presentation and only slightly about content. > > This means that you need to create absolutely horrible hacks in XHTML to > make the page look *exactly* like you want. And that's normally what > people using a word processor want--exact control over how the page looks. >
Yea! Webpages are not word processing documents. They [should] have different presentation objectives. One of my pet peeves is (on websites where the information is ..well, informational -- rather than artistic, experiential, or ..?) where the website author ignores the informational purposes and designs as if for print or display advertising or billboards, or something other than web browsers! Many of these designers seem to be holdovers from the /if you can do it you have to/ crowd, or just do not share the same objective as the owner of the website or information content. Ramble/grumble/mumble... I like the proposition that _I_ should control how _my_ browser presents the information. I want larger fonts, narrower pages, absence of animation (I try to kill anything that moves [without my permission]). Horizontal scrolling is awful. Snaked columns (a la pdf) on webpages is worse! Non resizable pages or pages unfriendly to font sizing make me angry! Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
