- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:23:39 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, Johannes Wilm <johannes@fiduswriter.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach Tab Atkins Jr.:
> I recommend reading the Extensible Web Manifesto
> <http://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/>, which I and a lot of other spec
> authors and major library developers signed. It says precisely what I
> just did - the correct way to design the web platform, established
> through years of experience, is to figure out the low-level primitives
> and expose those, then additionally offer high-level sugar that
> composes those primitives automatically for you to solve common
> problems.
On the ladder of abstraction for document design, regions and flows
are fairly abstract concepts that depend on lower-level stuff like
fitting content on a line. If you truly want the low-level stuff, a
better target is TeX's assembly-language-for-documents-like features.
I grew up with FrameMaker which basically was a software package for
Regions. I was always envious of the low-level stuff that the TeX guys
could do.
Cheers,
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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