Re: The Problems of TeX

On Feb 22, 4:17 pm, William F Hammond <hamm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
real-address-in-...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) writes:
Use Firefox.  Zoom in three steps.  See?  Broken already.

Yes, but the page, as I see it at this moment, shows 128 dtd validation
errors and makes very heavy use of javascript that I can only guess,
without close examination, is not designed to scale well.

Much of the HTML served on the web has technical deficiencies.

So: normal Web pages, in practice, do not scale up as well as PDFs do -
in practice, based on my experience.

So you're comparing what's there as HTML with what's there as PDF.

Shouldn't the comparison be between PDF and properly written HTML?

While not ``properly written'', I believe my personal pages for the
most part demonstrate the point of offering the user control over the
size of type in a .html page, while allowing the text to re-flow:

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/willadams/links.html

(please note the _ht_a/ which allows one to avoid the hometown ads
which AOL is inflicting even on paying customers)

I'll grant that there are few pages which nicely allow the user
control over size (though I've always at least tried to design in a
control for such, if a full range of sizes would break the site, e.g.,
http://www.healthinaging.org/ ) --- a showcase for well-written web
pages is http://www.csszengarden.com/

It'd be easier to write html which scales if one could also use
relative measures (percentage of window size, x-height, ems, &c.) for
graphic sizes (as opposed to using JavaScript &c. to impose such), and
if it were easier to use .svg for graphics in web pages.

William
(who since his NeXT Cube broke will have to re-work his own web pages
to use CSS and add a JavaScript to turn off AOL's ads)

.

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