- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 17:28:41 -0600
- To: S.R.E.Turner@statslab.cam.ac.uk
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
From: Stephen Turner <S.R.E.Turner@statslab.cam.ac.uk> | -> I assume authors would not feel compelled to specify a page size unless | -> they had a reason to (for instance, an image of a certain size) | Like they don't use <blink> unless there's a good reason to, you mean? --- I think most use of BLINK is by people who have a specific reason for using it. What I was trying to say, by indirection, was that it would be a bad thing if authors or (more likely) authoring tools turned the ability to specify size into a default behavior of specifying a size, just as it would be bad if authors or authoring tools decided that the web-wide default should be to have the author's name in a BLINK at the beginning of the document - *that* would be gratuitous. It's perfectly reasonable to knock the existence of the BLINK element as indicating presentation instead of structure. On the other hand, if Netscape had named the tag URGENT and its default behavior were to blink the enclosed text, there would be nothing there to deplore. scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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