"Thomas, Gregory (NBC, KNBC)" <gregory.thomas@nbc.com> writes:

I especially like how you drove home the fact that "HTML was _designed_ to separate the presentation of content from the content itself".

This is very common knowledge for those who followed the evolution of things. As to quote precise references, I do not have any handy. HTML was much inspired from SGML. I tried to carefully explain that particular goal (in French) within the chapter on SGML, somewhere within: http://www.ceveil.qc.ca/Normes/index.html (Our original report is also available as a PostScript file somewhere, but I forgot the URL, and am not Internet-connected as I write. It is a not a small document to print, anyway. But I'll look for it if someone asks.) How WYSIWYG HTML generators use HTML, nowadays, has little to do with the initial intent of HTML. The worse is that people look into the crap these editors generate, and try to learn from there. HTML 4.0 much tried to correct the whole phenomenon, but it will take a long time before the correction globally succeeds, _if_ it ever succeeds. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/