Posted by Martin Underwood on 10/27/55 11:42

Jose wrote in message
P0JRf.621$4L1.18@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com:

>> 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.
>
> No it wouldn't - don't be ridiculous.

I wasn't aware that I was being ridiculous. I was asking a question in all
innocence. From the replies, I see that I'm very much in the minority - well
what a surprise: what's new ;-)

> So if I want to be able to read the text, the picture has to balloon
> too? And if I want to shrink the window so I can see my spreadsheet,
> the pictures have to become postage stamps??
>
>> let the
>> site author retain full control over all other aspects of formatting,
>> typography etc.
>
> If you actually want me to =read= your content, let =me= choose the
> formatting and typography. Let me turn off all the inane flashing
> animations that steal my attention. Let me navigate back and forth at
> will, my way.

I agree that a lot of the flashing animations that people think are "cool"
are a pain in the arse. I'm talking about simple text/page layout.

> Do you ever browse the web as a =user=??

Yes. It pisses me off that for some sites, as I move the margins of my
window, the columns of tables grow/shrink and lines of text in a table or
paragraphs of text surrounding photographs change their wrapping.

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