- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 07:16:04 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> David, why can't a tool be used for multiple purposes? Why must there be a highly specific tool for > each of these uses? Basically because that is how all computing standards degenerate. New standards are created to do a specific job well, then because people are unablble to cope with more than one tool, get forced to do the same job as many other tools, so they all end up doing the same jobs in incompatible ways. If a single tool was appropriate, there would be no HTML as we would all be using Word or PDF. In particular, PDF better fits the desire of many designers for tight control of visual presentation. The most obvious, to me, degeneration in the web, apart from the fact that people can't distinguish between HTML, CSS, Ecmascript, DON, and even Flash, and call them all HTML, is that people do not use HTTP at all, trying to duplicate some features into HTML, where they only work for HTML, not for other media types.
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