[MacDV] Re: Safari pros and Cons!

[Ken McNamara]

Erica -

How you say what you say is as important as what you say.  Content and
presentation are part of the data.

KenMc

Erica Sadun wrote:
> 
> At 1:23 PM -0600 1/8/03, Steven Rogers wrote:
> >On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 01:06 PM, Danny Grizzle wrote:
> >
> >>The geeks are nearly dead wrong about content presentation, in
> >>effect specifying something selfishly obsessed with
> >>their own needs. If pure unadulterated textual information were the
> >>only requirement --- well, can you show me *any* national magazine
> >>with the look and feel of a legal brief or an Internet RFC?
> >
> >I agree with all that, but markup languages weren't really invented
> >for what the web is now. The geeks aren't really "wrong" per-se,
> >they just didn't know what they were inventing at the time.
> >
> 
> What they were inventing was a text-equivalent of X-Windows.
> Very much in the same backwards server/client model.
> 
> I just remember thinking at the time that content and presentation
> trumped data. Still think so.
> 
> (Although, it would be hard to explain that to Google successfully)
> 
> -- Erica
> 
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