Re: Netscape & New HTML

• From: <lamport@src.dec.com>
• Date: Thu, 20 Oct 94 11:25:07 -0700
• To: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
• Cc: ehood@imagine.convex.com
• Message-Id: <9410201825.AA00400@lilac.pa.dec.com>

   The following are much better:
   
      <p>Some text
      </p>
      <p align=center>Some centered text</p>
      <p>some more regular text
      </p>
   
       or,
   
      <h1 align=center>This is a H1 heading</h1>

I presume one would also write

      <p font=10pt Helvetica with 2 pt leading>Some text</p>
 
I'm glad HTML will express only the logical structure of a document,
and not be a formatting language.  If HTML were a formatting language,
it would have to include all those nasty features that are needed to
format real documents, and people might start asking embarrassing
questions--like why invent a new formatting language when perfectly
adequate ones already exist?

Leslie Lamport

Received on Thursday, 20 October 1994 19:38:38 UTC