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Article #12254Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?
From: the red dot
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:45
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:45
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"fgdg" <ilovesanta@lycos.com> wrote in message news:1171555825.536750.285310@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com... > 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 is how far web design has come. > Postscript is a page description language like HTML or CSS. By now we > should have a Quark Xpress or Indesign for the web, but the only > morsel the software industry has thrown designers after a decade of > the web is CSS coding and a choice of Georgia or verdana. It's beyond > the joke. > which reminds me of the story of the americans who spent millions of dollars making a pen that worked in zero gravity, the russians just used a pencil.
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