- From: Richard Koman <rkoman@ora.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 13:24:05 -0700
- To: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
>On the Internet today, "push" is generally considered a bad thing. At some >level, net users usually don't like to get stuff that they didn't ask for, >explicitly or implicitly. I think that's why structured text has been the >focus so far. But as advertisers start to carry some of the costs, >publishers are going to want their usual level of control over the >appearance, and hence (in theory) the impressions that they make. > >Nick It's not just commercial concerns. Designers, for instance, are frustrated by the idea that they can't present information and have it people see it the way they meant it to be seen. They can't spec a typeface, can't knock type out of an image, can't spec a color, can't set type on an angle, can't run type around an image, can't put images underneath type, etc. You can do all these things on a computer, so why shouldn't you be able to let people see the structured (designed) document on the Net? Not being able to do so leads people to printing documents and mailing them to people (the ultimate push). Richard ---------------------------------- Richard Koman rkoman@ora.com O'Reilly & Associates 103A Morris St. Sebastopol, CA 95472 707-829-0515
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