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Re: the older debian user; Debian Senior



On 30 Jul 2002, 16:40:06, John W. M. Stevens wrote:

> <rant>
> HTML used to be philosophically clean, re: its basis as an SGML
> DTD.
> 
> Now, it sucks!  I remember the days when you could control just
> about every aspect of presentation . . . sigh.
> </rant>

If you want to hear a really good rant on that topic, check with your nearest
"visually challenged" aka blind user.  The web's INITIAL insistence on only
using markup tabs was a godsend for them - their audio "browser-reader" had a chance
to interpret the page as it saw fit to relay it's content to the user . .
. 
and now . . . not a chance . . . 

ah well . . .

madmac - I'm staring 39 in the face, and finding that it's not so much that I
get confused more often, but that I now lack the tenacious persistence in
finding a solution.   Is a readier willingness to say, aw fuck it, a trait
of aging????



> 
> John S.
> 
> 


-- 
Doug MacFarlane
madmac@covad.net



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