- From: Afternoon <afternoon@uk2.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 03:48:12 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
I definitely see your points on the issue of browser presentation. Obviously I want my life to be easier, but I realise that it's something of a moot point anyway. > No, sorry. The Web is an information medium. You may perceive it as > a visual medium, and it supports (and is in some ways optimized for) > a visual presentation, but it's not a visual medium. We're going to have to agree to disagree on this one. The web, unlike previous computer-based broadcast technologies, such as Usenet, is a mass-market medium. It can not occupy the role it does without it's visual component. XML is an information medium, pure and simple, but it is not consumed by humans. HTML is and hence must support visual techniques. Even if these are as simple as a slighter bigger font for a heading, there must be visual differentiation to create structure. The web isn't visual like magazines and adverts aren't visual. Of course they are, because human's don't just communicate in text. Ben (q) Ben Godfrey? (a) Web Developer and Designer See http://aftnn.org/ for details
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