Posted by Dave Balderstone on 02/16/07 05:05

In article <0001HW.C1FA848300010DEBB022094F@news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:19:54 -0600, Steve Hix wrote
> (in article <sehix-E08511.19195415022007@news.speakeasy.net>):
>
> > In article <1171555825.536750.285310@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>,
> > "fgdg" <ilovesanta@lycos.com> 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
> >
> > HTML is *not* a page description language.
>
> Are we perhaps getting into "micro-semantics" as from Wikipedia we find.....
>
> HTML, short for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language
> for the creation of web pages.

Markup language != page description language by a long shot.

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