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Mike McBain wrote:
<...about HTML, SGML and XML...>

Maybe that's where HTML is heading and where it once was when it
was simple but in the "browser wars" lots of presentation control
has been added to HTML. And they do stupid things like measure
distance in pixels. One of the big mistakes was assuming that
content providers (read that as "advertising agencies") are okay
with the viewers (web surfers) controlling the presentation
(via their browser). These people want control over the look.
They don't want Johnny using 15pt Times-Splendido-Offputting
for headings, they want their product to look the way they
want it to look. Hence the huge numbers of images embedded
in pages or pages that only contain one large image map which
the graphic artist prepared in PhotoShop. Now of course these
people aren't the only ones using HTML but they're out there
and structural markup without style sheets to control its
look (which is where HTML is mostly at today giving the number
of older browsers in use) doesn't cut it for them. The idea
is sound but the implementation was lousy.

-- 
Andy Newman