On 9/25/2006, "Volker Kuhlmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Blimey, how many web developers can you insult with a single sentence, >> spelling mistakes notwithstanding! > >How many web developers can insult users with a single page? > >HTML was designed as simple markup while leaving the exact rendering to >the browser. The number of spacer.gifs everywhere shows that web >developers fail to grasp this concept. > >There is no practical way for controlling fonts on websites (other than >the workarounds already posted). Personally I'm not sorry about it. >There's far too much visual stuff and lack of content already. Reminds >me of architecture somehow. More to do with ego message of the designer, >less with the user. > >> There are a few problems with pdfs in this case, like >> expanding/contracting menus, drag/drop, > >> Pdf's do not support a rich multimedia >> environment that web users expect these days. Incidentally, and even more OT, pdf's CAN have embedded movies! http://electron.mit.edu/~gsteele/ffmpeg/movie.pdf Theres some info on how to do this here: http://electron.mit.edu/~gsteele/ffmpeg/ and http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~noeckel/PDFmovie.html cool huh? I do however agree with Volker that the web has moved too far from its original html premise,
