On Thursday 21 February 2002 09:18, Roland Mösl wrote: | "Sören Kuklau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message | [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... | | > > It's a big advantage to be able to print out a whole web site | > > as a brochure | > | > It's an even bigger misunderstanding to think that HTML was designed to | > create brochures. If you want that, use PDF or similar formats. But NOT | > HTML.
Indeed, *NOT* HTML. But XML or XHTML with CSS2/CSS3 formatting. | | It's a more big misunderstanding to think, that HTML remains | at what it was at the begining. | | With reusing browser technic, it's today even possible to use | MSIE as an DTP system. Problem is *what* system will you use to create that HTML? FrontPage is terrible broken here, as well as other HTML Editors (generators) There is no issue which browser to use. You can have isnatlled 3-4 browsers even in Windows, plus another 3-4 on Linux partitions. But *how* you are going to make markup for those pages? So far, you need to do it manually... (I just made one datasheet in XHTML yesterday, works great; going to send those datasheets to partners soon) | | I will not waste server space with PDF, when I can use zoom | and some code to make all in HTML That datasheet zooms ok (at least, it's "text part") As it was designed for *content distribution*, not to *please browser users with different screen sizes*, <body> has fixed size of 210x297mm (A4 paper size). And text is enlarged inside 2 columns onthat page. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
