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Article #12261Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?
From: Dave Balderstone
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:38
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:38
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In article <0001HW.C1FA99C600060991B022094F@news.supernews.com>, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:05:23 -0600, Dave Balderstone wrote > (in article <150220072305233044%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca>): > > [responding to quoting from Wikipedia] > > > Markup language != page description language by a long shot. > > Could you perhaps give a short definition of each. HTML as a markup language describes parameters for a multitude of possible interpreters rendering a page, based on what can be fairly vague instructions, so that an instruction like 'font size="-2"' will display different absolute results depending on the client doing the interpretation (IE/Safari/Firefox/Omniweb/etc). Postscript, OTOH, is a specific description language based on a known and consistent interpreter, where an instruction such as '90 rotate 0 -612 translate' will do *exactly* the same thing no matter where it is interpreted (HP/Agfa/Harlequin/etc), and display *exactly* the same result. I've coded both. Coding PS, I can be pretty damned confident that whoever executes the code I write will see exactly what I see. Coding HTML, I do not have that luxury. -- You can't PLAN sincerity. You have to make it up on the spot! -- Denny Crane
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