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- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 08:25:29 -0400
- To: 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 ] The fact that computer are set up in page metaphores is interesting. I doubt if it will change. Any large section of text is much more readable in columns. We HTML users need to recognize that irrufftable fact. (Please pardon my spelling.) -------------------------------------------------------- Win Hinkle published LETTER FROM EVANS, a non-profit, paper-based jazz newsletter dedicated to the late jazz pianist Bill Evans. For a free sample issue, e-mail ground (snail) postal address to winhink@magicnet.net. See Win's new site at http://www.magicnet.net/~winhink/ --------------------------------------------------------
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