Posted by Helpful Harry on 02/16/07 06:59

In article <sehix-6AE1F8.22344015022007@news.speakeasy.net>, Steve Hix
<sehix@NOSPAMspeakeasy.netINVALID> wrote:

> In article <0001HW.C1FA848300010DEBB022094F@news.supernews.com>,
> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:19:54 -0600, Steve Hix wrote
> > (in article <sehix-E08511.19195415022007@news.speakeasy.net>):
> >
> > > In article <1171555825.536750.285310@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>,
> > > "fgdg" <ilovesanta@lycos.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> 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
> > >
> > > HTML is *not* a page description language.
> >
> > Are we perhaps getting into "micro-semantics" as from Wikipedia we find.....
> >
> > HTML, short for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup
> > language
> > for the creation of web pages.
>
> "markup language" is not the same as "page description language".
>
> HTML markup doesn't specify *how* information is to be displayed, but
> the relationships between information components.

Since when is [strong] a "relationship between information
components"?!?!? It's telling the browser that the following text
shoulld be rendered in bold until it finds a corresponding [/strong]
tag.

HTML code simply tells a browser how to render a page on-screen.
Postscript tells a printer (usually) how to render a page to print to
paper.


Helpful Harry
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