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Article #12259Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?
From: Dave Balderstone
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:05
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:05
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In article <0001HW.C1FA848300010DEBB022094F@news.supernews.com>, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:19:54 -0600, Steve Hix wrote > (in article <sehix-E08511.19195415022007@news.speakeasy.net>): > > > In article <1171555825.536750.285310@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>, > > "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 is how far web design has come. > >> Postscript is a page description language like HTML > > > > HTML is *not* a page description language. > > Are we perhaps getting into "micro-semantics" as from Wikipedia we find..... > > HTML, short for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language > for the creation of web pages. Markup language != page description language by a long shot. -- You can't PLAN sincerity. You have to make it up on the spot! -- Denny Crane
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X-Google-Thread: feb82,cf2aaa82d150dfe9 X-Google-Thread: f4f4a,cf2aaa82d150dfe9 X-Google-Thread: 10cb8f,cf2aaa82d150dfe9 X-Google-Thread: 101ba1,cf2aaa82d150dfe9 X-Google-Attributes: gidfeb82,gidf4f4a,gid10cb8f,gid101ba1,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!sn-xt-sjc-04!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-sjc-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!dave From: Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,alt.html,macromedia.dreamweaver,adobe.golive.windows Subject: Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad? Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:05:23 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <150220072305233044%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> Reply-To: dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca References: <1171555825.536750.285310@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <sehix-E08511.19195415022007@news.speakeasy.net> <0001HW.C1FA848300010DEBB022094F@news.supernews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Thoth/1.8.3 (Carbon/OS X) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 25