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Posted by Harlan Messinger on 02/15/07 18:50
Harlan Messinger wrote:
> fgdg wrote:
>> Why do we put up with web design software? Nobody makes a PDFs by
>> writing Postscript in Notepad, but that is what designer's working for
>> the web are expected to do. That is how far web design has come.
>> Postscript is a page description language like HTML or CSS.
>
> Postscript is a page *format* description language. HTML is a page
> *structure* description language.
>
>> By now we
>> should have a Quark Xpress or Indesign for the web, but the only
>> morsel the software industry has thrown designers after a decade of
>> the web is CSS coding and a choice of Georgia or verdana. It's beyond
>> the joke.
>>
Also, CSS *can* be applied like PostScript, including a STYLE attribute
with every tag to define that element's appearance alone, and in that
case a CSS editor can apply the styles that will make an element look
exactly has you defined its appearance using WYSIWYG tools. But CSS is
best used to define entire style sets based on element tags, classes,
and IDs. It's hard to use CSS in that manner when applying formatting to
individual page elements one at a time with a WYSIWYG editor.
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