Re: <math>, <fig>, ... (fwd)

>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.
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Mark Leighton Fisher                   Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com                   Indianapolis, IN

Received on Friday, 10 May 1996 16:44:16 UTC