[10833] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sarr Blumson)
Mon Jun 2 10:31:11 1997
From: "Sarr Blumson" <sarr@umich.edu>
To: Erik Aronesty <earonesty@montgomery.com>
Cc: "'www-talk@w3.org'" <www-talk@w3.org>,
"'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>, sarr@umich.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 May 1997 23:11:24 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 09:30:30 -0400
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In message <c=US%a=_%p=Montgomery%l=NY-PB-EXCH-1-970601061124Z-622@sf-exch-2.mo
ntgomery.com>,
Erik Aronesty writes:
>The concept of "pages" and "paged output" is an important one in
> human understanding of readable content.
Pages are an "appearance" feature, not a structure feature. As such they are
very dependent on other appearance features such as font and window sizes.
These are the sorts of features that a user needs to be able to control on an
individual basis to accommodate individual differences: most carefully laid out
"pages" end up looking pretty awful when displayed with the enormous fonts I
use so I can read them and the "landscape" layout window I use to accommodate
them.
If your suggesting that browsers should be configurable to force a "page break"
on a level one header I would agree completely. I could even deal with a
"force new page" tag although I suspect it will end up being grossly misused.
But adding "page" as a primary concept ignores the fact that this _isn't_ paper
and misses the opportunity it provides to let readers control appearance for
their own comfort and needs.
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