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Posted by Carolyn Marenger on 11/23/11 11:42
Martin Underwood wrote:
> Next wrote in
> 1142354536.224320.60080@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com:
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>> Years ago, it occurred to me that a lot of the trouble
>> of writing web browsers is caused by the upside-down
>> arrangement of things: Javascript code exists inside
>> a document, when really it should be the other way around.
>> And yet, although this seems fairly obvious to me,
>> having tried myself to write a web browser and given up,
>> I don't see a lot of movement by major web browser
>> projects in a direction that might TRULY fix the problem.
>> I do see a few slow-moving projects: HTML5 and Web Applications.
>
> I think the bigger issue with HTML and browser design is that it only
> supplies *hints* and *suggestions* as to the formatting, rather than
> making all browsers display a page with identical formatting, as PDF does.
> It would be so much easier as the designer of a site if you could be
> confident that everyone would see the same view of the page without the
> line breaks and table column widths being variable under user control. Let
> users have a zoom control (as for Acrobat Reader) it they need larger
> print but don't let them change the font size independent of all other
> objects on the page; let the site author retain full control over all
> other aspects of formatting, typography etc.
I was thinking about developing a new hardware device allowing a user to
plug into a free USB port, and having the information appear within the
users neurons. Then, I don't care what screen size they have, i don't even
care if they can see. My page is plunked right inside their brain, and
they get all of the content just the way I want them to.
Yet another layer of sarcasm... ;)
Carolyn
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