- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 07:33:18 -0400 (EDT)
- To: dba@althingi.is
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
> A page is not just a layout question, a page is also > an abstract concept, a basic unit of text. For instance > we frequently print many pages on one sheet of paper. A page is _not_ a unit of text. Very few authors think in terms of pages. Most think in terms of "documents", "chapters" and/or "sections." The relationship of those entities to pages is up to the publisher. > The blind feels what a page is and could be told about it > like headers and anything else. But why would a blind person _care_ about a page? Even to sighted readers a page is often an annoying break in the middle of concpets. > A browser could have pageing rather than scrolling. LYNX already does have paging rather than scrolling. In fact, Mosaic and Netscape also both allow you to page through documents. > In HTML we can only deal with text on like paper rolls. > When the paper rolls get long and numerous we realise that > it would be nicer to have books with pages. That is where multiple HTML file come in. You can use multiple HTML files to make a single meta-document. Paul Prescod
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