Re: [Sheflug] Re: LaTeX

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:58PM +0000, Will Newton wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Author-side formatting is a bad thing, because it encourages people
> > who have all the formatting sense you expect of `cat' to concentrate
> > on form instead of substance.  They should use HTML and let the
> > browser make it look pretty for them.
> 
> Tell that to someone with formal design training. HTML is an exercise in
> frustration for anyone trying to create a decent looking page. Hence
> Flash.

	If these people with formal design training are responsible for
all flashy and poshy web sites, they should be petrol bombed. As usual,
the dilemma is content vs presentation. IMHO, a battle lost for content.
Most of the time you get "nice looking" pages that don't work properly,
or that have far too much kludge about to distract you from the fact
that the content is "invalid request" or something similar (compare. 

	A bit when all computer related stuff was "interactive" and
"multimedia". It's only "multimedia" and "internet" now.

	Oh well, I'll shut up. Sorry for the offtopic (and I quite like
interfacing with Wintypes using PDF :D)

José
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