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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 04/06/07 13:49
David Segall wrote:
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
>> What Gutenberg was doing was printing on *paper*. Paper has absolute
>> dimensions,
> Maybe, but those that produce print have learned that what looks good
> on a billboard usually fails to convey the message if used on a
> postage stamp. They know that even changing the orientation of a fixed
> size page from portrait to landscape requires a new print layout.
You appear to be missing the point, whether or not it's a billboard or a
postage stamp the printing process involves knowing in advance the
dimensions and aspect of the "canvas"! That is *not* the case with a
webpage, unless you forces everybody to use MS WebTV!
>> a webpage does not! It is a different media. The same
>> transition when television was invented, the early shows tried to do tv
>> like radio, but it didn't really work. The "shows" had to change. Same
>> here with print media to web
> Agreed. People insist on arguing that a web site can be made to look
> good regardless of the Window size using only HTML and CSS. I do not
> believe this is possible.
Oh ye of little faith.
> HTML and CSS are relics of the print media
?? P { pause: 30ms 40ms; }
> and until designers make proper use of the computer's intelligence we
> will continue to see web pages that are _designed_ for a fixed window
> size even if they shrink or expand to fill the available space.
Hmmm, well computers are actually very very dumb, but besides the point.
How do you mean? We had ways via JavaScript.Unfortunately the
combination of some browsers on bad security, and some unscrupulous
designers that did "use of the computer's intelligence" via JavaScript
with said bad browsers and gullible humans (with lack of it) and did
some nasty things! So JavaScript has a black eye now! I would be for
reinforcing the JavaScript sandbox, maybe limiting some of its
functionality to make the holy trinity available for we designers again.
HTML - structure and content
CSS - presentation
JavaScript - behavior and interaction
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Take care,
Jonathan
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