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there weren’t any. the official w3c answer was basically “why on earth would you want to layout a webpage?! stop doing that!” Ideology trumped practicality and
by ZenPsycho 8y ago
there weren’t any. the official w3c answer was basically “why on earth would you want to layout a webpage?! stop doing that!”
Ideology trumped practicality and we’re stuck with the consequences.
or another way of putting it is they viewed web browsers as something more like a feed reader/news reader. that the browser and user should have control of how the information is presented, not the individual websites, which should stick to plain vanilla semantic markup with no fancy stuff. CSS was only created to stop people mucking up documents with <font> <center> <marquee> and <blink> which have no semantic value.
for a time mozilla had xul, but that was never an option for website layout.
- mcphage 8y ago> the official w3c answer was basically “why on earth would you want to layout a webpage?! stop doing that!” And that's the heart of my frustration. w3c designs things, not based on what people need, or even what people want, but instead what they think people should be doing. So many problems of the web stem from the fact that the committee who's supposed to be directing the design of web technologies, has no interest in how people actually use the web. That creates a power vacuum which gets filled by browser manufacturers, who at least have an interest in the people using the web's needs.