Re: unruly stylesheets vs. unruly HTML (was: battlefields) from Gavin Nicol on 1996-01-16 (www-style@w3.org from January 1996)

From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:57:15 -0500
To: dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
Cc: Hakon.Lie@sophia.inria.fr, www-style@w3.org
Message-Id: <199601161457.JAA14439@ebt-inc.ebt.com>

>First, the life of the information in someone's HTML documents will
>usually be much longer than the life of the style chosen for those
>documents (what happens in five years when marquees and gradients in
>the background are considered tacky, or in fifteen years, when they
>become part of retro-90's chique?). 

I very much think that most people who are actually quite serious
about data longevity would never choose HTML as the canonical form in
the first place.

Received on Tuesday, 16 January 1996 09:58:55 UTC