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Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/18/54 11:49
David Segall wrote:
> "Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com>" <dingbat@codesmiths.com>
> wrote:
> >What's a "brochure" ? A one-off document that's printed and then
> >mailed out as static paper?
> >-- that's the difference. The web doesn't work that way.
> What sort of distinction are you trying to draw?
A printed document has already been rendered, but a web document is
still only a potential document and could be rendered by any user
agent. Printed documents only have one rendering because they've
_already_ been rendered - web documents have potentially many, and
potentially with variations.
> Are you saying that a
> web page is substantially different from a brochure because a brochure
> might last forever but a web page can be changed tomorrow?
No, not that at all.
> Dreamweaver attempts to produce a document that contains the embedded
> strings that are required to satisfy the visual requirements of the
> user in exactly the same way that Word does.
That's its problem -- and it doesn't even emphasise this "embedded
strings" aspect as much as it ought. Word is targetting a single
printed rendering and DW takes a very similar view. They see the
endpoint as one targetted rendering, and they see it as only one
rendering.
If you author a _good_ web document instead, then you target a
potentiality of different web clients, from desktops to printers and to
mobile phones, and you address them all simultaneously. If your design
goals are modest and your skills adequate, this is an entirely
reasonable target to achieve.
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