Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 02/16/07 07:43

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "fgdg" <ilovesanta@lycos.com>
writing in 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.
>

There is a significant point to be made here - a browser is not a piece
of paper. Authors know for the most part, what sizes paper comes in,
and they know that paper cannot be resized. A browser is an entirely
different creature - the user has control, can resize the browser,
disable graphics, disable client side scripting, change the size of the
font, even use his or her own styles.

The problem is that an author looking at his screen, is never going to
know what his audience is going to see (or hear for that matter). Yes,
he can make an educated guess, but unlike paper, it's a real crap shoot.

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