| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 28 Aug 2000 at 18:34:14 |
| Subject: | Re: Can you check this please :) |
On 28-Aug-00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> If all browsers just used the same settings for fonts it would be
> horrible. Fonts suited to a 640x256 screen would be unreadable on
> 1600x1200.
>
> HTML is a context markup language, not a page descroption language.
HTML is more like a mobile than a statue.
A web page is a dynamic thing, and designers with a print background are
always trying to make them static.
Admittedly the idea that a web page should lay itself out to suit the
space available seems to be hard to grasp.
Regards
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