- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:26:27 -0700 (PDT)
- To: kitblake <kitblake@gig.nl>
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
On Wed, 19 Jul 1995, kitblake wrote: > The tail: > > > >No, we'll just leave you to your <CENTER><BLINK>KooL!</BLINK><CENTER> > >Netscape "Enhanced" world, and get on with the serious business of > >constructing useful, powerful and accessible open standards for > >everyone, that make the Netscape Extensions look like the crude > >little hacks they are. > > > > As I read this ongoing discussion I get a strong sense of deja vu. There is > an Academy, say the Beaux-Arts in France, telling Claude Monet that > Impressionism is not painting. We all know who Monet is.... We are *not* comparing art styles vs. art styles. I don't think anyone is saying that attractive documents have no business on the web - quite the contrary, we are trying to create a basis for an extremely powerful presentation layer on top of a semantic document language - HTML 3.0 and style sheets - which will give the document authors an astounding amount of control over how the page *looks* without mucking up what the document *says*. Why shouldn't color, alignment, size, and font styles be applicable to *all* HTML tags, rather than waiting for piecemeal attribute additions to the <FONT> tag or the <CENTER> tag? Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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