- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 13:20:48 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <exxieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote (8:38 PM +0100 5/20/98):
" Todd wrote:
" >I do see reason to hope and believe that soon, mass-market browsers will
" >parse documents that begin with <?xml version="1.0"?> . They'd better be
" >well-formed, but apart from that, their elements and most of their grammar
" >might come straight from the HTML DTD(s) of your choice.
"
" Much as I may hope, I still doubt that that will be any time soon.
5.0.
" Wow. I have enough trouble convincing people that MARKUP is more important
" than PRESENTATION. How hard will it be to explain that they can decide on
" the DTD they want, and can even invent their own...? That won't need a gear
" change, it'll need an engine change! Think about it: how many of the
" upcoming XML DTDs do you think will miss the boat and end up resembling
" PostScript more than the {ht|math}ML family?
I see nothing wrong with using markup to describe presentation. What's
perverse is using largely nonpresentational markup (such as HTML provides)
for this purpose, leveraging a perversely fixed stylesheet. Issues of
"document source integrity" aside, HTML and its default stylesheet are just
a really poor graphic design environment.
Todd Fahrner
mailto:todd@lowbrow.com
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