[MacDV] Re: Safari pros and Cons!

[Steven Rogers]

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 12:02 PM, Erica Sadun wrote:

> The whole point of the way markup languages were specified was to 
> allow each browser to have control over the output of the description. 
> This, I always felt, was amazingly stupid. Time has (I believe) proved 
> me right.

Its actually more directed at conceptually separating the content from 
specifics of display to make it portable. The viewer gets to specify 
things like what <BOLD> is, but that's not really the key motivation. 
The primary motivator is to create an abstract idea of presentation 
that makes the content look fairly good across a lot of devices with 
different sizes and capabilities. Its not as dumb as it looks on the 
surface.

SR