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Posted by axel on 10/06/38 11:42
In uk.net.web.authoring Martin Underwood <news@isp.com> wrote:
> Next wrote in
> 1142354536.224320.60080@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com:
>> 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.
How? Other than embedding typefaces in documents since all computers
do not have the set installed.
And when someone wants to view such pages through lynx or other text
based browser...?
Axel
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