- From: Lennart Staflin <lenst@idasys.se>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 95 13:59:29 +0200
- To: kitblake@gig.nl
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
[kitblake@gig.nl (kitblake)] >There is one thing I'd like to throw out here, which has to do with a short >term and a long view. > >It would be a good idea if we could organize text into columns. I don't think this should go into HTML. I you want to view text in multiple columns than instruct your browser to format it thus. >Short term: >This is partly because a lot of sites are making wide pages, which means >that the text lines are very long, thus hard to read. This may fall into >the style sheet arena, but.... Yes most browsers are broken, they should have a max line length for breaking paragraphs. But this is a browser issue, not a HTML issue. >Long term: >I look forward to the day when we can drop the page metaphor, and have the >browser take over the whole screen, as do some interactive programs. Then >entering a site would really be entering a world. I look forward to the day when there is a lot of really useful information out there. But multiple coulumns seems to me to be clinging to the paper metaphor. -- Lennart Staflin [ Work: lenst@idasys.se Private: lenst@lysator.liu.se ]
Received on Friday, 2 June 1995 08:33:32 UTC