- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 01:10:20 +0300 (EEST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Afternoon wrote: > > Besides, why _should_ they be alike? > > So that two people, without user styles, looking at a styled page see > the same page to the greatest extent. And this is desirable exactly why? What's the point of using different browsers if they need to do just the same? But this raises the question whether the sample style sheets are really meant to serve uniformity - which, combined with the idea of just describing what browsers actually do, would mean that browsers should keep imitating the default presentation style of old browsers. Canonicalizing Mosaic, so to say. There's quite a lot in the "traditional" rendering that reflects rather random and ill-advised decisions, like "Mosaic paragraphs" with gaps between, equal spacing before and after a heading, and bullets as list markers as opposite to the dashes of typography. I had always though that the sample style sheets aimed, to some extent at least, at _good default rendering_ in browsers. Similarity of rendering would be a side effect, not the goal. But I'm afraid I have been even more naive than I thought. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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