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Re: CXS page (fy: (Mis)Naming a Language)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Sunday, October 31, 2004, 6:12
> I know presentation wasn't the goal of HTML, but the cold hard truth is > that on today's Internet presentation is half the web site.
True. But websites which care that much about presentation do it with Flash anyway, so who cares about HTML? :)
> I've read that it has caused some grief with Flash animations and > QuickTime video, which are not IE-specific at all.
And which should be included via the <object> tag in that case.
> <EMBED> never was standard HTML, I know that; but it was still > supported and used, and when it was pulled out from underneath us it > caused unnecessary trouble. (Not to say that the introduction of > <EMBED> in the first case didn't cause unnecessary trouble, either. :)
It was never "pulled out from underneath" anyone. If you don't care about your pages working in anything but IE on Windows, you can still use <embed> as much as you want. If you care about writing standards-compliant HTML that works in other browsers on other platforms, then you can't use it - but then, you never could.
> I didn't mean that CSS was necessarily harder. It's just that C-style > syntax (brackets, braces, commas, and semicolons everywhere) tends to > scare beginners away.
If you say so, I'll take your word for it; I'm afraid I'm too far removed to judge, since I've been programming for my entire adult life (plus a good bit of my pre-adult life as well).
> And yes, it certainly does make things easier with regards to making > site-wide changes.
Not to mention supporting mild variants of a page without having to generate the HTML dynamically (via PHP or Java or what have you). -Marcos