Posted by Jake on 05/06/06 10:44

In message <8e3ti3-rjn.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>, Toby Inkster
<usenet200605@tobyinkster.co.uk> writes
>Jake wrote:
>> David Dorward writes:
>>
>>> Author's page, but user's browser.
>>
>> Exactly. Author's page -- so author gets to choose.
>
>User's browser -- so user gets to choose.
>
If you can override the author's design decision, well -- good for you.

>Should a newspaper publisher be able to choose to make sure all readers
>hold the paper in their left hand, hold it a specific distance from their
>face, fold it in a particular way, and so forth? If I've bought a
>newspaper, I'll read it any way I bloody like.

And do you walk into the publisher's office and tell him he can't
produce his newspaper in a certain size, with a specific typestyle, etc.
No? I thought not.

>

--
Jake (jake@gododdin.demon.co.uk -- just a 'spam trap' mail address)

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