Posted by William Mitchell on 02/16/07 00:45

"the red dot" <red@dot.spot> writes:

> "fgdg" <ilovesanta@lycos.com> wrote in message
> news:1171555825.536750.285310@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com...
> > Why do we put up with web design software? Nobody makes a PDFs by
> > writing Postscript in Notepad, but that is what designer's working for
> > the web are expected to do. That is how far web design has come.
> > Postscript is a page description language like HTML or CSS. By now we
> > should have a Quark Xpress or Indesign for the web, but the only
> > morsel the software industry has thrown designers after a decade of
> > the web is CSS coding and a choice of Georgia or verdana. It's beyond
> > the joke.
> >
>
> which reminds me of the story of the americans who spent millions of dollars
> making a pen that worked in zero gravity, the russians just used a pencil.

My understanding is that story is apocryphal. The space pen, which
both use, was developed by a private company.

And I use a space pen, together with a waterproof pad, for taking
notes while working in the woods. It costs somewhat more, but its
well worth it.


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Bill Mitchell
Dept of Mathematics, The University of Florida
PO Box 118105, Gainesville, FL 32611--8105
mitchell@math.ufl.edu (352) 392-0281 x284

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