- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:03:30 -0800
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, "Anne Pemberton" <apembert@crosslink.net>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, "William Loughborough" <love26@gorge.net>
At 9:03 PM +0000 11/27/00, Sean B. Palmer wrote: >But surely if I had written something that I wanted to make available to as >many people as possible, I would want to add in as much presentation as I >can. Sean, you do understand what the term "straw man argument" means, right? That said, I think it -is- important to note that a good designer likely _will_ add in as much presentation information as they can. Can you give a good reason not to? >Langauge doesn't mean anything, it's just there to be presented, like >art. When I want people to read my text I don't want them to understand it, >I just want them to see "well that bit of text is bold, and this bit is >italic, and this bit is both". You realize that nobody's said this besides your imagination. Sure, it's easy to knock down arguments you purposely construct to be unsupportable... >In 20 years time or whatever when there are no formatting browsers >left, people will still see things like:- >"I <b>really</b> do <i>believe</i> that the current economic..." If you saw something that said that, would you be able to understand it? I can understand it myself, and people have been understanding that in print for a long time. What argument are you trying to make here? If you want to present a sarcastic rebuttal, by the way, you should at least make sure it bears some resemblance to the points you are trying to rebutt. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/
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