- From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:10:29 +0000
- To: Brad Kemper <brkemper@comcast.net>
- CC: Peter Moulder <Peter.Moulder@infotech.monash.edu.au>, www-style@w3.org
Brad Kemper wrote: > I don't want the user agent to design my page for me, or to second guess > my intentions. I will not use anything that removes the control I > currently have over the design. What "control" do you believe you have ? HTML & CSS allow you to /influence/ the design, but if you want to /control/ it you would do better to adopt a page- description language such as PDF. >> When writing a web page, I usually don't actually care whether it's >> floated left or right, and in general I don't know whether it will look >> best floated left or right without knowing the font size and window >> width etc. > > Maybe you don't, but I do. Were it not for my New Year's resolution to be kinder to all men, I would be sorely tempted to suggest <arrogance> tags around the last sentence. Philip TAYLOR
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