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Posted by Paul Herber on 10/25/29 11:42
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:48:10 -0000, "Martin Underwood" <a@b> wrote:
>Harlan Messinger wrote in message
>47qra1Fgli9cU1@individual.net:
>
>> Martin Underwood wrote:
>>> Next wrote in
>>> 1142354536.224320.60080@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> HTML is simply not meant to be a page layout language. It's a document
>> markup language, and presentation is meant to be secondary. There's
>> normally no reason why a document needs to be displayed in a single
>> fixed format, and if you try, you make life difficult or impossible
>> for a large percentage of your audience.
>
>Therein lies the problem: expecting web sites to be read on a very wide
>variety of browers and devices, rather than saying that for a browser to be
>a browser it has to conform to a very tightly-controlled standard. I know
>HTML isn't meant to be a page layout language - my question is "why isn't
>it?".
>
>If I send a Word document, I don't expect people to be able, at a stroke, to
>alter the sizes of all my fonts - apart from zooming in and out of the whole
>page - thus destroying my carefully-crafted page layout. I wish browsers had
>been designed with page layout given as much thought as content.
>
Your carefully-crafted page layout in Word can be destroyed quite
easily without any assistance from the recipient by:
a. different sized paper in the printer settings
b. different printer margins
c. non-available fonts
d. missing images and embedded objects
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Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. http://www.pherber.com/
Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/
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