Posted by Andy Dingley on 04/22/06 00:43

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:53:59 +0100, "Alan J. Flavell"
<flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, JDS wrote:
>
>> HTML at its core is VERY easy to learn.
>
>That hasn't been my experience of trying to help people with it!

It would be, except that almost none of them will be happy to "learn
HTML" - they all want to dive straight in with presentation rubbish too
"because they've already done that at home with FP" or "Their kids had
dancing penguins, so they want them too and they want them now".


I'd also disagree that HTML has no presentational aspects. It ought not
to, it's a laudable aim to try and eliminate them. But CSS can only
style what it's given and you _do_ find a need to introduce extra
wrapper <div>s or the odd <br>, just so that there's enough granularity
to be able to apply sophisticated CSS to.

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