printing HTML
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Apr 9 02:05:53 UTC 1998
Ted K. writes:
> One problem with html is that you have no control over horizontal
> spacing. Tabs are not supported. Putting in more than one space
> character does not influence horizontal spacing.
>
> Other than that, html is a 'universal' printing format. I've
> noticed some gif support in the system. I would like to see us
> expand this capability to allow any window to dump an image of
> itself on the disk as a legal html file. An added benefit is that
> one can make web pages by 'printing' and moving the files to your
> web server.
I can't resist one of my favorite rants.
With HTML it's even "worse" than this. Take any particular tag, and
you really don't know just how it will render on a random user's
browser. For instance, header tags might come out numbered, or
bold-faced, or enlarged, or centered, or maybe none of the above.
<ul> might number its "unordered" list, and <ol> might use letters
instead of numbers. You just don't know.
If you *really* wants to control layout, you should use something like
Postscript or RTF or TeX or Word, systems seriously designed for
describing the appearance of a document in addition to its textual
content.
HTML is for *content* markup.
Lex
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