Re: Nominate definition of "presentation"?

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Shelby Moore wrote:

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> This is important enough to deserve a new thread.
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> 1. Implementation specifications which conform to markup specifications are
> conforming and are thus presentation.  Most of CSS is.  Any portions of
> implementation specifications will which allow non-conformance to markup
> specifications are "non-conforming semantic layer".[1]
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> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2003Jan/0110.html
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> Can every one agree this is one useful way of defining "presentation"??

Sorry, but I must be exceptionally ignorant (or worse, stupid)--I don't
understand this definition at all.  A succinct, concrete example would
help me get it through my thick, concrete skull.

And no, I have not read the other thread in its entirety, in depth. 
(I'm sure the examples are somewhere in there.)

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J. David Eisenberg  http://catcode.com/