Ray_Net wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote, On 18/03/2013 15:43:
Philip TAYLOR wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Soon enough, we won't have to code HTML by hand, we'll just write
and format content the way we do in a word processor. We're not
there yet, but I can see it coming.
Then we won't be writing HTML, we will be designing a web page; two
entirely different things. Writing HTML is about semantics : "which
element best describes this stretch of text ?"; designing a web page
is about appearance : "How and where should this stretch of text (or
image, or table, or media element) appear".
Yes, but the two tasks are intertwined. The designer sets up a CSS
that defines the various elements and then uses those styles to mark
his content. Usually the designer tweaks the definitions to achieve
the desired look and feel; he doesn't just take them "out of the box."
When you write a mail in html form using SM - where is the CSS file ?
Well, that would be a case where the CSS file is null or absent, so the
recipient's program uses its own definitions, unless the sender embeds
the style definitions in the header of that HTML. Not many users would
think to do that or know how.
But we were talking about web page design, which as you know is more
sophisticated. It's like comparing apples and apple pie, or oranges and
orange marmelade.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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