on Mon, Jun 17, 2002, Gerhard Gaussling (ggrubbish@web.de) wrote: > Am Montag, 17. Juni 2002 01:36 schrieb Karsten M. Self: > > > > According the meaning of css-capabilities I define it as > > > arranging page-elements pixel-by-pixel. > > > > That doesn't convey much, but if you mean what I think you mean, > > you're wrong. > > In a drawing it's really helpful for a digital reproduction to know > where to find the edges between the colors. > > Ok, HTML really didn't start as a presentation language like ps or > pdf or all the other adobe stuff, but if you want to communicate, > _not_ by words only, it's simply helpfull to have a language that > knows how to describe your figurative vision. No. And as I describe to the design team at work (who mostly get it), as well as other designer friends (who sadly often don't): This isn't paper. You don't have control over media, gloss, stock weight, form, ink base, ink fade, font face, size, anything. Hell, you don't even know that the medium is visual (you're aware that CSS provides for audio stylesheets as well). You can hint at what you want. Genius in this medium is design that works gracefully over a wide range of devices, settings, and environments. Anything else is kicking your customers. If you want to specify page layout explicitly, then *use* PS or PDF. HTML ain't it. Anything else is a job:tool mismatch. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Support the EFF, they support you: http://www.eff.org/
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