Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 05/06/06 18:56

Jake wrote:
> 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.
>
>>
>

That is the point you are missing, a webpage is *not* a printed page.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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