- From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 96 15:42:00 PDT
- To: "'Paul Prescod'" <papresco@itrc.uwaterloo.ca>
- Cc: www-html <www-html@www10.w3.org>
>The problem is that the more formatting stuff gets into the language, the >more formatting stuff _will_ get into the language. "HTML isn't really >platform independant markup...it has _elements_ for _centering_ for gawd's >sake! And FONT face control elements! How can you call that platform >independent?" Not if stylesheets get there first -- and likely they will (<URL:http://192.216.48.63/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?96058.navigator4.htm> and <URL:http://www.microsoft.com/ie/author/html30/html_toc.htm>). Stylesheets (and editors more sophisticated than vi or Notepad) will offer a lot more power, a lot faster, than the "presentational tag soup" we have to deal with now. ====================================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
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