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Posted by Steve Hix on 02/17/07 01:44
In article <160220071959359480%helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com>,
Helpful Harry <helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com> wrote:
> In article <sehix-6AE1F8.22344015022007@news.speakeasy.net>, Steve Hix
> <sehix@NOSPAMspeakeasy.netINVALID> wrote:
>
> > 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" is not the same as "page description language".
> >
> > HTML markup doesn't specify *how* information is to be displayed, but
> > the relationships between information components.
>
> Since when is [strong] a "relationship between information
> components"?!?!? It's telling the browser that the following text
> shoulld be rendered in bold until it finds a corresponding [/strong]
> tag.
No, it's telling it to display as strong; strong may be displayed in
ways other than just bolding it.
> HTML code simply tells a browser how to render a page on-screen.
> Postscript tells a printer (usually) how to render a page to print to
> paper.
Well, html gives strong hints, maybe. But anyone's reader may be set up
to do just about anything imaginable, making the writer's intent non
much more than a mild suggestion. Unlike PS or PDF.
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