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This was exactly the reaction I had as well. It's demonstrative of someone so hopelessly stuck in the past and unable to the potential of an electronic medium.

This was exactly the reaction I had as well. It's demonstrative of someone so hopelessly stuck in the past and unable to the potential of an electronic medium. Wh we continue to anchor web technologies to print idioms is beyond me. I'm not saying there are no classically useful concepts from print. Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic style does a great job of educating one on the value and thinking of techniques from the print world. There are timeless principles that are directly transferrable to the present unchanged, but there are principles whose entire raison d'etre is tied to constraints and properties exclusive of print. Issues that are no longer necessarily applicable on the web.

haakon-wium-lie 12y ago
We obviously have different points of view: I find that the best presentations on mobile devices often borrow more from paged designs than from scrolled designs. As such, I believe that being able to paginate content on dynamic screens is important for the future of CSS and the web. Pages and columns have been basic building blocks in typography since the Romans started cutting scrolls into pages. This is not why browsers should support them. We should do so because they help us make better, more beautiful, user experiences on mobile devices.