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Posted by Simon Brooke on 11/23/01 11:42
in message <4puke3-i9t.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>, Toby Inkster
('usenet200603@tobyinkster.co.uk') wrote:
> Martin Underwood wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> If you want PDF, then *use* PDF.
/No-one/ wants PDF. /Ever/. There is never any good reason for using it.
>> I wonder if Tim Berners-Lee and the people that devised HTML would
>> still have designed it that way that it is in the light of people who
>> are itching to use it as a tightly-controlled page-format tool.
>
> Yep, I think they would have.
Tightly controlled page format has no place on a world wide web where the
range of display devices - and the range of visual acuity of users - is
unconstrained and unlimited. If you want tightly controlled page format,
print it on vellum and send it by pony express or pigeon.
--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those
who are now possible remain possible -- Michael Bakunin
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