[1477] in java-interest
Re: html3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ser@jersey)
Tue Sep 5 19:15:24 1995
From: ser@jersey
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1995 10:27:18 -0700
> One thing people continue to misunderstand or ignore about the web is
> that the user DOES and SHOULD control the display, the efforts of
> dinosaur paper-based companies like Adobe not withstanding.
...
> Elliotte Rusty Harold Black Star Publishing Co., Inc.
This is a curious statement, coming from a person in the "publishing" business.
You are attempting to remove all artist creativity from the layout of the
page, and I don't understand why. Layout is a very important part of the
creative process, and impacts greatly on the effect of the page, whether for
better or worse. This need for layout control is seen everywhere on the web
in the form of HTML authors giving up almost completely on text HTML pages and
resorting to large graphics which preserve the format of thier layout. This
is unfortunate, because it castrates the true power of HTML, which is remote
layout.
Given an either/or choice, the most layout control I'd allow the user would be
a zoom button.
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