- From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 May 96 14:45:00 PDT
- To: Paul Prescod <papresco@itrc.uwaterloo.ca>
- Cc: www-html <www-html@www10.w3.org>
>>But eventually <CENTER>, <FONT>, et.al. will wither away as they will not >>supply the power that stylesheets deliver. > >Our responsibility is to make standards that _preserve_ an author's >investment in their document, not standards that make their documents >disposable. Yes, that is why we need to make this move now rather than 2 years from now, when the Web will be much bigger. Major releases of Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer (who appear to be the major commercial browser vendors in terms of number of messages about them on USENET :)) due this year will incorporate style sheets. We may be cursed with <BLINK>, <FONT>, etc. for awhile yet, but I suspect that there are very documents now on the Web that incorporate those elements that will not be revised within a year or so. Scientific/technical documents (which may endure as-is for years) likely will not use those types of elements, anyway. ====================================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
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