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Article #12248Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?
From: Ed Seedhouse
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:41
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:41
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On 15 Feb 2007 08:10:25 -0800, "fgdg" <ilovesanta@lycos.com> wrote: >Why do we put up with web design software? Nobody makes a PDFs by >writing Postscript in Notepad, but that is what designer's working for >the web are expected to do. That's because the web is not paper. PDFs are a medium designed to be printed on paper. The Web isn't. There is no useable "wysiwyg" editor for the web because there is no one "wyg". >That is how far web design has come. >Postscript is a page description language like HTML HTML is *not* a page description language. It is a *document* description language and that's entirely different. More generalized. > It's beyond the joke. The joke is on you because you don't understand the media. TV is not Radio and the Web is not paper, and never will be. You are like a Radio producer moaning that your TV programs won't work properly when you use your well understood radio methods.
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