Posted by Owen Rees on 10/06/91 11:42

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:54:15 -0000, "Martin Underwood" <a@b> wrote in
<441846b9$1$6980$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>:

>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 ;-)

As has been pointed out, if you want the kind of layout control you seem
to favour, there is PDF. It is not limited to 'paper' sized pages, you
could generate 'screen' sized pages at your assumed resolution.

If at this point you are thinking "but HTML is more popular than PDF"
then there is a message there.

I believe that you can also get that kind of control with Flash, but I
have no personal experience of it - I have never created any, and my
usual browser does not have the appropriate renderer installed (and that
is my explicit choice).

To all those who think the web ought to have been different I would
point out that there were a lot of alternatives around at the same time.
If it had been what you think it ought to have been perhaps we would now
be using someting else that had whatever it was that made the web so
successful.

--
Owen Rees
[one of] my preferred email address[es] and more stuff can be
found at <http://www.users.waitrose.com/~owenrees/index.html>

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