- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:31:57 +0100
- To: "'www-amaya@w3.org'" <www-amaya@w3.org>
> From: David A. Cobb [SMTP:superbiskit@home.com] > > very carefully crafted, canonically correct HTML of whatever version where > > we know precisely how it is intended to be rendered; say one page for each > [DJW:] HTML is not intended to have one true rendering. Even CSS up to CSS2, at least, is intended only to be treated as hints on presentation, but HTML is about document semantics and has very little to do with presentation/GUI rendering. In the area of input controls, up to at least CSS2, then expectation is that the controls will be displayed in the natural form for the operating system, not in any standard format. If you look at the PDF version of the HTML specification, it was generated from the HTML and is a valid graphical rendering, including the collapsible outline tree; however, it is unlikely to look exactly like the rendering in IE or Mozilla. If you want controlled prsentation, use PDF, whose design aim was that. Unfortunately most "HTML" authors are working on tne false premise that it is some form of page description language. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS. >
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